How to Install NixOS From Scratch (2026 Edition) | Flakes + Home Manager Full Guide
This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to install and configure NixOS from Scratch. It involves starting off with Home manager and Flakes before even rebuilding your system. This can be seen as a part 4 of the general NixOS series, but it is also very much a standalone episode.
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Music:
• Shingeki no Kyojin - EYE WATER - Soft Pian...
• Succession Main Theme - Piano (Advance dif...
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:40 Download and Boot into ISO
1:25 Partition Disks
2:32 Make and Mount File Systems
3:39 Generate NixOS Config Files
4:11 Create Flake and Home files
5:20 Create flake.nix file
8:30 Clean up configuration.nix
10:11 Setup Xserver
12:20 Nerd Font and Experimental Features
13:13 Baseline Minimal home.nix file
14:16 Install NixOS with Flake :)
15:44 First Boot Into System
16:49 Create Dotfiles Folder
18:05 Add Neovim and Qtile configs
19:23 Install Configs with Home Manager
20:51 Implement mkOutOfStoreSymLink
23:52 Clean Up Home.nix variables
26:22 Further Cleanup with mapAttrs
29:13 Obligatory Neofetch
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