Move your NixOS into a Flake!

Schema:

Starter nixos configurations:

[Xorume.]

Here's an interesting detail:
The flake name ("myNixos" in the video) can be omitted if it matches the hostname.

So if you're deploying to a machine named "nixos", naming the flake "nixos" allows you to simply run:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/mysystem

[sadwhale]

You popped out from nowhere, your videos are concise and your channel has a based name. Thanks for the content and keep going!

[alexxitoprivacy]

this channel is underrated as hell, you really deserve a lot more. Your vids are just perfect, they're short, concise, simple and really easy to understand. I love all of this. I was trying to use a dude's flake to copy his hyprland configuration but i couldn't understand wtf was going on, now i took a look at your vids and I'm already on a good spot. Love your vids so much, keep it on

[JIWallin]

I found your account a week ago. Now every system I work in is nix based and I'm using vim. WTF did you do to me? You are exactly the hero we need right now to help save us from those who shall not be named.

[ocimandiaspepe]

Hey, lots of thanks for these tutorials, they help a lot and due to the mere existance of them I'm installing nix

[justaguyalive]

Thank you for this I wanted this after the last video

[unknown-otter]

Hey! Thanks for continuing the series!
Do you have your dotfiles published anywhere by chance?

[John-Dennehy]

For some reason this video is missing from the NixOS playlist. Had me really confused since yesterday.

[spyro]

What are the reasons to do this? What are you gaining from moving it to a flake?

[gbember]

Thank you for the video! Do you also plan on doing one about home-manager?

[patomackcodes]

After moving the configuration to your home directory, do you go back and delete the original config in /etc/nixos?

[TheBitHero]

I know I just commented on another video about getting unfree stuff working. This video actually solved that! Thanks!

Question: What benefits do you gain by moving the entire configuration.nix to a flake?

How did you apply dark theme to the nixos wiki page?

[BraxtonMeyer]

do you have plans to share dottfiles or similar

[imb]

Hi, there will be more videos on Nixos?

[gbember]

Can I use this to pin a specific application to a version, while being able to keep updating others? Something like Wine for example

[aleclowry]

Where do you recommend storing your Nixos configuration as a flake? It’s my understanding that once it’s a flake you can technically put it anywhere (ie, somewhere where your used as write permissions for convenience) however, it seems like this isn’t super helpful when it comes to setting up new systems where you needs to run your configuration in order to get your user account

[kirillschirov]

Where i can look your color theme, it's so beautiful...I want the same thing, It's not just a gruvbox, is it?

[jakljakl]

two problems i ran into, maybe this helps somebody:
- If you are using a flake.nix from git-repo you should beforehand use "nix flake init", otherwise it will only opens the man page of nixos if you try to build your flake
- If your flake.nix is in a git-repo, stage your files first ("git add ."), otherwise it won't build either

[BartekBroniszewski]

So there is no reason to move the configuration into flake now as you just imported it into a flake. Maybe when flakes will be the default standard in 20 years more or less.