Add some milk to your (corn) flakes! :P

jokes aside, this is more or less a gathering of various nix related tools and sane configs to be used on a typical NixOS Desktop installation. Configured in a way it (should) be completely overridable. Just reconfigure what you don't like in your configuration.nix. :)

It's currently not using flakes at all, but that's probably the next thing to work on...

If you miss something or think something shouldn't be enabled per default, make an Issue or a PR. I'm glad for any input! :)

The long term idea for this is to become to NixOS a bit like what Manjaro is to Arch linux.

NixOS based "Distro"

Current Features (and weirdnesses :P)

• Wifi, Sound, Bluetooth, Antivirus, printing, virtualization
• Home-Manager integration
• nixos-hardware usage instructions
• nix user repository (nur)
• NPKG package manager which can automatically add packages to your configuration.nix
• TODO: Add Nix GUI as alternative to npkg
• Install instructions with encryption and safe hibernation
• Full KeepassXC integration as secret service/keyring and Browser Integration
• with milk.laptop.enable = true;: Brightness, Touchpad, USB-C Docking Station
• with milk.yubikey.enable = true;: all tools required to use and configure a yubikey
• Installation documentation includes BTRFS filesystem plus disk encryption. Allows for Snapshots, COW, etc.
• A lot of CLI Tools
• with milk.fancyPkgs.enable = true;: some very fancy CLI Tools
• with milk.desktopPkgs.enable = true;: Basic Desktop tools like Browser, Mail Client, Office Suite, etc.
• with milk.vm.enable = true;: Everything required to run this inside a KVM/Libvirt VM
• TODO: The way too fancy nixos-boot loader which takes too much ressources on a small boot...

Usage

The following is how to add this repo to an existing config, but there's also a full installation example

First you need to clone the repository (as root):

cd /mnt/etc/nixos
sudo git clone [email protected]:Melkor333/milkos.git

You can use it by simply adding configuration options to your configuration.nix:

let
  home-manager = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz";
  nixos-hardware = builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware.git"; };
in
{
  imports =
    [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
      (import "${nixos-hardware}/lenovo/thinkpad/t14s/amd/gen1")
      ./hardware-configuration.nix
      (import "${home-manager}/nixos")
      ./milkos
    ];
  # enable the basic milkos configuration:
  milk.enable = true;

  # configure your users home settings:
  milk.home = {
    user = "Melkor333";
    enable = true;
    keepassxc.enable = true;
    keepassxc.managedConfigfile = true;
  };

Setup nixos unstable branch

Setup unstable branch by executing the following on the command line (this repo is not tested against stable)

sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos

Add local_packages.nix for npkg

This file will be used by npkg to automatically add packages to your declarative configuration.

sudo cp local_packages.nix /etc/nixos/local_packages.nix

Further TODO:

Basic Laptop requirements:

• Maybe a full fledged xmonad/qtile/etc. config
• Application launcher and stuff
• Fancy Terminal/Shell Setup
• Proper documentation
  • Install (partitioning, etc.)
  • Configuration of Desktop
• A script which helps with the setup (or even an installer...)