Nix Home Manager

My home-manager config for Fedora. One home.nix file, a pile of Neovim Lua, and the usual overengineered dotfiles.

Installation

Note

These steps are for a standard (mutable) Linux distribution with single-user Nix. On immutable distros Silverblue, use the Determinate Systems installer instead.

1. Install Nix (single-user, no daemon):

   sh <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon
   . /home/$USER/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

   Nix version:

   nix (Nix) 2.31.3

   More info at nixos.org/download

2. Add channels:

   nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
   nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL/archive/main.tar.gz nixgl
   nix-channel --update

   The home-manager channel tracks unstable/master, so packages follow whatever is current on search.nixos.org/packages. The nixgl channel is for GPU wrappers on non-NixOS systems (nixGL repo).

3. Install Home Manager and create the first generation:

   nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install
   echo ". /home/$USER/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh" | tee -a ~/.bashrc > /dev/null
   source ~/.bashrc

4. Verify:

   cat ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix

Next step

See the Home Manager manual for how to use the home-manager command.

Packages

CLIs, language servers, formatters, and a few plugins.

A

1. act - Run GitHub Actions locally
2. air - Live reload for Go apps
3. alacritty - A cross-platform OpenGL terminal emulator
4. asciiquarium-transparent - Aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art
5. asm-lsp - LSP for Assembly
6. asmfmt - Formatter for Assembly
7. astyle - Formatter only for Java

B

1. bash-language-server - LSP for Bash
2. bat - Alternative to cat
3. beautysh - Formatter for Shell
4. binsider - Analyzer of executables using a terminal user interface
5. black - Formatter for Python
6. bun - Javascript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager
7. btop - A monitor of resources

C

1. cmus - Console music player for Unix-like operating systems

D

1. direnv - Unclutter your .profile
2. docker-language-server - LSP for Docker Compose
3. dockerfile-language-server - LSP for Dockerfile
4. duf - Disk usage or free utility. A better df alternative

E

1. editorconfig - Enforces consistent coding styles across editors and IDEs
2. exiftool - Meta information reader or writer

F

1. fastfetch - Neofetch like system information tool
2. fd - Alternative to find
3. file - Shows the type of files
4. firebase - Firebase CLI
5. fish - User friendly command line shell
6. fishPlugins.autopair - Auto complete matching pairs in the fish command line
7. fzf - Command line fuzzy finder

G

1. gcloud - Google Cloud CLI
2. go - Golang!
3. go-migrate - Database migrations. CLI and Golang library
4. gopls - LSP for Go
5. govulncheck - Go vulnerability checker
6. gping - Ping, but with a graph

H

1. hclfmt - Formatter for HCL
2. hey - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
3. htmx-lsp - LSP for HTMX
4. huggingface-hub - CLI and Python library for HuggingFace Hub
5. hyperfine - Command line benchmarking tool

I

1. id3v2 - Command line editor for id3v2 tags
2. isort - Formatter for Python imports

J

1. jdt-language-server - LSP for Java
2. jq - Lightweight and flexible command line JSON processor

K

1. k6 - Modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

L

1. latexmk - TeX Live environment
2. lazydocker - The lazier way to manage everything docker
3. lazygit - Terminal UI for git commands
4. lazysql - A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Go
5. lua - Lualang!
6. lua-language-server - LSP for Lua

M

1. minify - Web formats minifier

N

1. neovim - Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
2. nil - Yet another LSP for Nix
3. nixgl - A wrapper tool for Nix OpenGL application
4. nix-prefetch-git - Script used to obtain source hashes for fetchgit
5. nixfmt-rfc-style - Formatter for Nix
6. nodejs - Event-driven I/O framework for the V8 Javascript engine
7. nodePackages.prettier - Formatter only for HTML, CSS, JS, TS, and JSON

O

1. onefetch - Git repository summary on your terminal

P

1. packer - Tool for creating identical machine images
2. pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager
3. podman-compose - Implementation of docker-compose with podman backend
4. pyright - LSP for Python

R

1. R - Free software environment for statistical computing and graphics
2. ripgrep - Searcher with the raw speed of grep
3. rlwrap - A readline wrapper
4. rtk - Reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands
5. rustup - Rust toolchain installer
6. rust-analyzer - Modular compiler frontend for the Rust language
7. rustfmt - Formatter for Rust

S

1. shellcheck - Shell script analysis tool
2. stylua - Formatter for Lua

T

1. tailwindcss-language-server - LSP for Tailwind CSS
2. taplo - TOML toolkit written in Rust
3. terraform - Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure
4. terraform-ls - LSP for Terraform
5. tesseract - OCR engine
6. tex-fmt - Formatter for TeX
7. texlab - LSP for TeX
8. tokei - Count your code quickly
9. tree-sitter - Parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library
10. typescript - Javascript with syntax for types
11. typescript-language-server - LSP for Typescript using tsserver

U

1. ueberzugpp - Display images in terminal emulators
2. unar - Archive unpacker program
3. uv - Fast Python package manager

V

1. vscode-langservers-extracted - LSP extracted from Vscode only for HTML/CSS/JSON/ESLint

Y

1. yamlfmt - Formatter for YAML
2. yaml-language-server - LSP for YAML
3. yt-dlp - Command line tool to download videos from Youtube and other sites

Z

1. zellij - A terminal workspace
2. zig - Ziglang!
3. zls - LSP for Zig
4. zoxide - Fast cd that learns your habits

Uninstalling Nix and Home Manager (single-user)

Delete everything nix-related:

nix-collect-garbage
nix-collect-garbage -d
rm -rf ~/.cache/nix \
    ~/.config/nix ~/.config/home-manager \
    ~/.local/share/nix ~/.local/share/home-manager \
    ~/.local/state/nix ~/.local/state/home-manager \
    ~/.nix-channels ~/.nix-defexpr ~/.nix-profile
sudo rm -rf /nix

Then remove these lines from .bashrc and .bash_profile:

# .bash_profile
if [ -e /home/user/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh ]; then . /home/user/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh; fi
# .bashrc
. "$HOME"/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

Screenshot

fastfetch

btop

nvim

zellij