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hello there, stranger! quintessence is an opinionated flake-based config, built from the ground up for newer users, using KDE Plasma as desktop manager.

feature list

-- stable-repo based, with a module for unstable packages. -- easy environment variable management, from flake.nix and modules/vars.nix. -- rebuild script and remote sync script. -- fairly thorough comments throughout.

getting started

begin with the NixOS graphical install medium. make sure to set the hostname and username as you'll want them, then reboot into that system.

open up /etc/nixos/configuration.nix in a text editor of your choice, then add programs.git.enable = true; right below the time.timeZone line. save out, then run nixos-rebuild switch.

in a text editor of your choice, make some changes to the provided files. -- in flake.nix, change the variables section as instructed. -- if you set up disk encryption, copy your boot.initrd.luks.devices line from /etc/nixos/configuration.nix to /home/USERNAME-GOES-HERE/dotfiles/configuration.nix.