(I highly recommend making your own configuration and copy snippets from mine, but anyway…)

Get the latest NixOS 24.05 image here, do your partitions (root must be mounted at /mnt), then run the following commands:

# move the output file of this to hosts/*/hardware-configuration.nix
nixos-generate-config

nix-shell -p git nixUnstable
git clone https://github.com/fortuneteller2k/nix-config ~
cd ~/nix-config
sudo nixos-install --flake .#starcruiser

# After rebooting
home-manager switch --flake .#moni@starcruiser

For WSL, follow the quickstart guide, then run the following commands:

nix shell nixpkgs#git
git clone https://github.com/fortuneteller2k/nix-config ~
cd ~/nix-config
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#turncoat
home-manager switch --flake .#zero@turncoat

• You probably should replace hosts/starcruiser/hardware-configuration.nix with your own with nixos-generate-config.
• You might want to change all instances of my username to yours.
• Comment out every __contentAddressed = true; you find.
• You might want to disable agenix, for my secret cannot be decrypted without my private key. See hosts/default.nix.

NixOS/nix-darwin/home-manager configuration that I use daily.

See also:

• home-manager
• flakes
• flake-parts, for the flake modules at modules/parts
• nixpkgs-f2k, my package collection
• nix-darwin, for hosts/riscake
• NixOS-WSL, for hosts/turncoat

Resources and configurations I used to base on:

• colemickens/nixos-flake-example
• NixOS modules on NixOS Wiki
• Writing NixOS modules
• Nix Flakes talk by Eelco Dolstra on NixCon
• flake.parts module arguments

jonringer gave a brief explanation as to why one might want to use Nix flakes.

flake-parts allow reusable configuration powered by the module system everyone knows and loves.

See modules/parts, and it’s implementation in my system configurations and my home configurations.