nix-home

Installation

In theory these installation steps should work on any distro (except nixOS), however I have only tested this on Debian 12.
If attempting on another distro, you will need to adjust some of the commands for your package manager. This guide also assumes you are using SDDM, which is the default when using Plasma.

First run some updates and install some programs you'll need:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install curl vim

Install the Nix package manager:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

Install Home Manager:

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager

nix-channel --update
nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

Enable experimental features for Nix:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nix
echo "experimental-features = nix-command flakes" >> ~/.config/nix/nix.conf

Install nixGL, which is the program that enables Hyprland to run:

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL/archive/main.tar.gz nixgl && nix-channel --update
nix-env -iA nixgl.auto.nixGLDefault

Clone down this repo:

git clone https://github.com/RoastBeefer00/nix-home.git
cd nix-home

Use vim (or whatever text editor you prefer) to edit home.nix and change the first few lines from roastbeefer to your own user:

NOTE: Use command whoami if you don't know your username

NOTE: There are probably many refences to the roastbeefer user in this file and potentially others like .zshrc... sorry you're gonna have to find and replace these

  home.username = "roastbeefer";
  home.homeDirectory = "/home/roastbeefer";

Copy these files to your home config:

mkdir -p ~/.config/home-manager
cp -r * ~/.config/home-manager
cp .zshrc ~/.config/home-manager
cp waves.jpg ~/Pictures

Install the home manager config:

home-manager switch

At this point Hyprland and all applictions in the home manager config should be installed. Now the only thing left is to create an SDDM entry for Hyprland. Use sudo vim /usr/share/wayland-sessions/hyprland.desktop to enter:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=nixGL Hyprland
Name=Hyprland

Log out and select Hyprland in SDDM. Enjoy!