Der Beta Kevin’s dotfiles

My compilation of configuration files, and more. Feel free to poke around and if you have any ideas or improvements, let me know via a merge request.

❄️ nixos-flakes ❄️

Important

Flakes are an experimental feature of the Nix package manager.

Note

Why NixOS Unstable?

NixOS hardly breaks at all unlike Arch Linux and the unstable packages are more up to date and have the largest Linux repository of all distros.

My Flake-Configuration for NixOS with Home-Manager

🖥️ My Personal Computers 🖥️

• Acer Travelmate 5760 | acertravelmate
• AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with MSI B450 A-PRO | amdryzen

🛠️ Install 🛠️

git clone https://github.com/derbetakevin/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
nix-shell -p nixFlakes
sudo nixos-install --flake .#hostname

♻️ Rebuild ♻️

• Standalone: sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake $FLAKE#hostname
• nh (yet-another-nix-helper): nh os switch --nom --hostname hostname or with --ask
• Home-Manager only: home-manager switch -f $FLAKE/home-manager/hosts/hostname/default.nix

🔁 With updates 🔁

• Standalone: cd $FLAKE ; sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade --flake $FLAKE#hostname
• nh (yet-another-nix-helper): nh os switch --nom --update --hostname hostname or with --ask

📋 Available DE/WM 📋

🖱️ Desktop Environments 🖱️

• Cinnamon
• GNOME
  • GNOME Games
• KDE Desktop (kwin)
  • KDE Games
• Mate
• Xfce4

🪟 Window Managers 🪟

• Awesome
• Hyprland
• Wayfire

All about Flakes -> https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
Thanks to JerrySM64 and the NixOS Foundation

🔧 Configurations 🔧

Application	Release	Where?	Done?
Alacritty		configurations/alacritty/alacritty.yml	✅
btop			❌
Conky		configurations/conky/conky.conf	✅
Fastfetch		configurations/fastfetch/config.jsonc	✅
Hyfetch			❌
Kitty		configurations/kitty/kitty.conf	✅
Neofetch		configurations/neofetch/config.conf	✅
Rofi		configurations/rofi/config.rasi	✅
Starship		configurations/starship.toml	✅
SwayNotificationCenter		configurations/swaync/config.json	✅
Waybar		configurations/waybar/config	✅

⌨️ Shells ⌨️

Shell	Full Name Shell	Release	Where?	Done?
bash	Bourne-again shell		configurations/bash/.bashrc	✅
elvish	Expressive Programming Language + Versatile Interactive Shell			❌
fish	the friendly interactive shell		configurations/fish/config.fish	✅
nu	Nushell			❌
oils	Oilshell			❌
pwsh	PowerShell			❌
zsh	Z shell		configurations/zsh/.zshrc	✅

📦 Package Manager 📦

Package Manager	Distro	Release	Where?	Done?
apt	Debian Ubuntu			❌
dnf	Fedora			❌
nix	NixOS			❌
pacman	Arch Linux		configurations/pacman/pacman.conf	✅
xbps	Void Linux			❌
zypper	openSUSE			❌

📊 Stats 📊

• https://repo-tracker.com/r/gh/derbetakevin/dotfiles

🌟 Star History 🌟

Others

• XWayland Video Bridge Quick Setup

Tutorials

• Discord Screen Share on Wayland
• QT programs on Arch in Dark Mode