芯 (Shin)

⚠ ^{_{PLEASE RESPECT THE CREDITS IF YOU USE SOMETHING FROM MY DESKTOP/SETUP.}}

Note: Built with flake-parts. The client configurations (desktop, laptop, tty) use Home Manager, while the Hetzner server is isolated on nixos-24.05. The flake builds for both x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux.

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SETUP • GUIDES • KEYBINDS • GALLERY

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• Window Manager • Niri🎨 Scrolleable WM!
• Shell • Fish 🐟 with starship Cross Shell Platform!
• Terminal • Ghostty 💻 Powerful Hyped term
• Panel • Noctalia! 🍧 Beautiful and minimalist desktop shell
• File Manager • Yazi 🔖 Rustacean File Manager!
• GUI Basic-IDE • Helix ✴️ Rustacean vim version!
• GTK Theme • GTK 🐾 My Fork of colloid

🌼 INSTALLATION (NixOS)

Request: NixOS

This flake targets both x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux, so grab the minimal ISO for your architecture:

# x86_64
wget -O nixos-minimal.iso https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-24.05/latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso

# aarch64 (e.g. Raspberry Pi / ARM boxes)
wget -O nixos-minimal-aarch64.iso https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-24.05/latest-nixos-minimal-aarch64-linux.iso

• Boot Into the Installer.

• Switch to Root: sudo -i

• Partitions:

I prefer to use 1GB on the EFI partition. Specifically because the 'generations' list may become very long, and to avoid overloading the partition.

# Replace nvme with your disk partition
gdisk /dev/nvme0n1

- `o` (create new partition table)
- `n` (add partition, 512M, type ef00 EFI)
- `n` (add partition, remaining space, type 8300 Linux)
`w` (write partition table and exit)

• Format Partitions:

mkfs.fat -F 32 -n EFI /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.xfs -L NIXOS /dev/nvme0n1p2

• Mount Partitions:

mount /dev/disk/by-label/NIXOS /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/disk/by-label/EFI /mnt/boot

• Enable nixFlakes

nix-shell -p nixVersions.stable git

• Clone my Dotfiles

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/someone/shin /mnt/etc/nixos

• Generate your Own Nix Hardware Settings:

⚠ ^{_{DON'T FORGET IT}}

sudo nixos-generate-config --dir /mnt/etc/nixos/hosts/aesthetic

# Remove configuration.nix
rm -rf /mnt/etc/nixos/hosts/aesthetic/configuration.nix

• Install Dotfiles Using Flake

# Move to folder
cd /mnt/etc/nixos

# Install (desktop for a graphical machine, or #laptop)
nixos-install --flake .#desktop

• Reboot

🐙 ^{_{Remember Default User & password are: nixos}}

• Change Default password for User.

passwd YourUser

🌻 TODO LIST

🧩 ADDITIONAL TIPS

If you're using this NixOS configuration flake locally, you can simplify the process of switching and managing your system using nh, a CLI helper for Nix Flakes.

To switch your system configuration with nh, use:

NH_FLAKE=/etc/nixos nh os switch

This avoids needing to type out the full nixos-rebuild command manually and provides a cleaner workflow when iterating on your setup.

💡 Make sure nh is installed in your system environment or user profile.

🍀 KEY BINDINGS

💐 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

		Inspiration and Resources
	1	owl4ce
	2	Ilham25
	3	Siduck
	4	NvChad
	5	Rxyhn
	6	HeinzDev
	7	fufexan
	8	AmitGolden

🌳 CONTRIBUTING

WIP

🎃 SECURITY POLICY

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