nixos-config

Ex dissatisfactione, evolutio.
(Out of dissatisfaction, evolution.)

My personal, flake-based NixOS configurations. Born out of systemic dissatisfaction with imperative operating systems, this repository represents a continuous evolution toward a predictable, reproducible, and highly optimized desktop environment.

Tailored for high-performance hardware while maintaining a resilient, hardware-agnostic portable target.

System Architecture

This repository uses a modular multi-host architecture. Hosts define machine-specific hardware and policy choices, while reusable modules provide the common system baseline and selectable implementations.

├── flake.nix
├── hosts/
│   ├── asus/
│   │   └── rog/
│   │       ├── strix/scar/15/g533qr.nix
│   │       └── zephyrus/m16/gu604vi.nix
│   ├── lenovo/
│   │   └── yoga/7/14irl8.nix
│   └── portable.nix
└── modules/
    ├── bootloader/
    │   ├── default.nix
    │   ├── grub.nix
    │   ├── limine.nix
    │   └── refind.nix
    ├── display-manager/
    │   ├── lemurs.nix
    │   ├── lightdm.nix
    │   ├── ly.nix
    │   └── sddm.nix
    ├── filesystem/
    │   ├── btrfs.nix
    │   └── ext4.nix
    ├── hardware/
    │   ├── amd.nix
    │   ├── intel.nix
    │   └── nvidia.nix
    ├── networking/
    │   ├── default.nix
    │   ├── dnscrypt-proxy.nix
    │   ├── dnsproxy.nix
    │   └── systemd-resolved.nix
    ├── core.nix
    ├── default.nix
    ├── imaging.nix
    ├── locale.nix
    └── userland.nix

Configurations

• vize-portable — hardware-agnostic portable environment using Ext4
• vize-strix-scar-15-g533qr — ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 15 with AMD/NVIDIA hybrid graphics
• vize-zephyrus-m16-gu604vi — ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16 with Intel/NVIDIA hybrid graphics
• vize-yoga-7-14irl8 — Lenovo Yoga 7 with Intel graphics

Feature Highlights

• Bootloaders: Selectable GRUB, Limine, rEFInd, or systemd-boot backend with shared boot policy and backend-specific configuration.
• Display Manager: Deploys ly, a lightweight TUI display manager configured with an animated colormix background. Alternative Lemurs, LightDM, and SDDM configurations are also maintained.
• Domain Name System: Selectable dnscrypt-proxy, dnsproxy, systemd-resolved, or unmanaged DNS. The default dnsproxy configuration uses encrypted DNS-over-QUIC with AdGuard and HTTPS fallback.
• Filesystems: Supports Ext4 and Btrfs with swapfiles or swap partitions and Zswap.
• Hardware: Modular AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA support with hybrid graphics, PRIME offload, NVIDIA power management, and hardware-dependent GPU acceleration.
• System Maintenance: Automated garbage collection on the first and third Monday of each month and Nix store optimization on the first and third Friday.
• Window Manager: Uses Hyprland as the primary Wayland compositor.
• Containers: Provides rootless container tooling through Podman.

Userland

The shared desktop and command-line environment is defined in modules/userland.nix.

• Applications: bitwarden-desktop, davinci-resolve, firefox, gimp, keepassxc, krita, libreoffice-fresh, obs-studio, onlyoffice-desktopeditors, proton-vpn
• Desktop & Wayland: darkman, gammastep, hyprshot, quickshell, wl-clipboard
• Development: git, neovim, nixd, nixfmt
• Shell & Terminal: bat, btop, eza, kitty, starship, yazi, zsh
• Gaming: Steam with a dedicated Gamescope session
• Utilities: brightnessctl, LocalSend

GPU-aware packages such as btop and OBS are configured according to the active AMD or NVIDIA graphics backend.

Installation & Deployment

Check the flake:

nix flake check

Build a configuration without activating it:

sudo nixos-rebuild build --flake .#<hostName>

Deploy it:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<hostName>

Core Specifications

• Architecture: x86_64-linux
• NixOS Channel: nixos-unstable
• Stable Package Overlay: nixos-26.05
• State Version: 26.05