The nixos-hardware "common-*" profiles the installer selects cover the
basics (microcode, the Intel/AMD VA-API media stack, weekly fstrim), and
power.nix adds thermald + power-profiles-daemon. This adds the gap above
them, generically and detected at install time.
New modules/nixos/hardware.nix exposes a vendor-keyed nomarchy.hardware.*
surface — broadly-beneficial bits default ON when the vendor is detected
(opt-out), heavy/experimental bits behind opt-in toggles:
- intel.enable -> GuC/HuC (i915.enable_guc=3); intel.computeRuntime
(opt-in: intel-compute-runtime + vpl-gpu-rt)
- amd.enable -> amd_pstate=active + radeonsi VA-API env; amd.rocm.enable
+ amd.rocm.gfxOverride (opt-in: ROCm HIP/OpenCL)
- fingerprint.enable -> fprintd; fingerprint.pam (opt-in: login + sudo)
- npu.enable (opt-in/experimental) -> the in-kernel driver
(amdxdna/intel_vpu) keyed by vendor; userspace runtime is BYO
hardware-db.sh now detects Intel/AMD, a fingerprint reader (libfprint USB
vendor IDs) and an NPU (Intel VPU / AMD XDNA PCI IDs), emitting NOMARCHY
lines the installer bakes into system.nix — safe defaults active, opt-ins
commented. Audited against the commons to avoid double-setting.
Verified: flake check green; a toggles-on build has amd_pstate=active +
i915.enable_guc=3 in kernel-params and ships fprintd.service; detection
runs correctly on the (AMD Ryzen-AI) dev machine. On-hardware verification
of the AMD/NPU/Intel-compute runtime bits is still pending.
Docs: template commented examples, README option table, ROADMAP status.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Finishing the four remaining "opt-in services" candidates — but two of
them aren't service-shaped, so the package-vs-toggle principle applies:
- Nextcloud client → a bare tray app; already in the app-suite menu,
not a service.
- WireGuard → NetworkManager (on distro-wide) imports .conf
tunnels natively, so there's no daemon to "just
enable". Only the wg/wg-quick CLI is missing →
wireguard-tools added to the app-suite menu.
The two that ARE config-backed become nomarchy.services.* toggles:
- openrgb → services.hardware.openrgb (daemon + device udev rules).
- restic → a small scaffolded surface (repository / passwordFile /
paths) over services.restic.backups: daily timer, 7/4/6
retention, --exclude-caches, repo auto-init. Asserts that
repository + passwordFile are set when enabled. passwordFile
is typed `str`, not `path`, so a flake-relative secret can't
be copied into the world-readable store.
README option table and ROADMAP (services now "Seventeen shipped";
cloud-sync / networking / backup / devices areas updated) + the downstream
system.nix examples. Both branches eval-verified; the restic assertions
confirmed firing when repo/password are unset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make the whole workstation menu available, all off/commented by default.
home.nix: the bare GUI apps become a categorized commented menu (~50
suggestions across browsers, comms, office, notes, code, graphics, A/V,
media, gaming, files/sync, security, system, local AI) — uncomment to add.
services.nix: the members that need system config (not just a package)
become opt-in nomarchy.services.* toggles, each with a commented example
in the downstream system.nix:
- docker → rootful Docker + user in docker group; asserts against the
podman docker-compat (both provide the `docker` command)
- kdeconnect → programs.kdeconnect (opens phone-pairing ports)
- gamemode → Feral GameMode daemon
- adb → android-tools (programs.adb was removed; systemd ≥258 does
the device uaccess udev rules, so no group needed)
- wireshark → Qt GUI + user in wireshark group (capture without root)
- ollama → local LLM runtime on 127.0.0.1:11434
- printing → CUPS + Avahi/mDNS network printer discovery
README option table and ROADMAP (services item now "Fifteen shipped";
local-AI / containers / gaming / devices areas marked) updated. All seven
branches eval-verified with the toggles forced on; the docker/podman
assertion confirmed firing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "default application suite" roadmap item, but deliberately NOT a
nomarchy.apps.* option surface: a bare package install has no config to
put behind a toggle, so a thin `mkIf x { systemPackages = [p]; }` only
reinvents what a package list already gives. Instead the suite is a
curated home.packages list in templates/downstream/home.nix (extending
the existing `# firefox` convention) — active staples (libreoffice,
vscode, gimp, inkscape, mpv, amberol) plus commented suggestions. The
opt-out is deleting a line; it also keeps the apps out of the live ISO
automatically (the ISO never scaffolds from the template).
The members that DO need system config become nomarchy.services.* opt-in
toggles instead (config behind the switch, like the existing services):
- steam → programs.steam (32-bit stack, controller udev, RP ports)
- libvirt → libvirtd + virt-manager, login user added to libvirtd group
- obs → obs-studio + a v4l2loopback virtual camera (exclusive_caps=1)
selectable as a webcam in Zoom/Teams
README option table, ROADMAP (services item now "Eight shipped"; suite
item marked done with the no-surface rationale) and the downstream
system.nix examples updated to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extend nomarchy.services.* with three more opt-in toggles:
- podman: rootless containers, `docker` aliased to it, container DNS, and a
subuid/subgid range for the login user.
- flatpak: services.flatpak + a oneshot that adds the Flathub remote
system-wide (idempotent, retries when online).
- pika: ships pika-backup, the GUI for scheduled Borg backups.
Commented examples in the downstream system.nix template, per convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Start the opt-in services surface: nomarchy.services.{tailscale,syncthing},
off by default, in modules/nixos/services.nix. Tailscale ships the daemon
(authenticate with `sudo tailscale up`); Syncthing runs as the login user
with its GUI on 127.0.0.1:8384 (overrideDevices/Folders off so GUI-managed
folders survive rebuilds). username is read lazily, only when Syncthing is
on. Commented examples in the downstream system.nix template per the opt-in
convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Convention: an off-by-default feature that needs nomarchy.* settings in the
downstream files should appear commented-out in templates/downstream/{home,
system}.nix, so a new install enables it by uncommenting + tweaking rather
than hunting the docs for the option name. Apply it now: night light,
nomarchy.monitors, per-device keyboard layouts (home.nix) and power
management (system.nix). Also fix the stale keyboard.layout note
(console/LUKS follow xkb automatically now). Documented in README S6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Pre-activation failure ("desktop pre-activation failed"): the in-chroot
HM build hard-coded `--option substituters ""`, which only works on
OFFLINE installs (where the ISO store is copied in). Online installs
(now common — wifi works) had no pins and built from source. Fix: build
the generation in the live env (its store always has the pins), nix copy
the closure to the target, chroot only activates. In-chroot build kept
as fallback. Uses path: (not git+file:) to sidestep libgit2 ownership.
- Read-only home.nix: templates come out of the store mode 0444 and cp
preserves it — chmod -R u+w after staging so the user can edit it.
- Keyboard + locale selection: gum prompts (localectl layouts/variants +
curated UTF-8 locale list) and NOMARCHY_LOCALE/KB_LAYOUT/KB_VARIANT for
unattended. One choice flows everywhere — services.xserver.xkb (source
of truth) + console.useXkbConfig (tty/greeter) + boot.initrd.systemd
(so the LUKS passphrase prompt uses the layout; script initrd can't) +
the generated home.nix's nomarchy.keyboard.* for the Hyprland session.
- test-install.sh: NOMARCHY_OVMF env override for sandboxed OVMF paths.
Verified end-to-end in QEMU: offline LUKS install completes, boots to a
themed desktop (no autogenerated-config banner), Plymouth renders the LUKS
prompt on the theme-tinted background.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Installed machines and the downstream template now resolve nomarchy from
git+https://git.bemagri.xyz/bernardo/nomarchy.git?ref=v1 (the lock's
original node carries the ref too), so `nix flake update` follows the
release branch instead of the forge's default branch. README quickstart
points at the real forge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Downstream users now own only system.nix and home.nix; their flake.nix is
generated once from the template and never hand-edited. mkFlake (lib.nix)
wires both layers and maps hardwareProfile = "<name>" to nixos-hardware
modules (new input, pinned here, nixpkgs follows ours; unknown names fail
with did-you-mean suggestions). Flake checks evaluate the template through
mkFlake — including a real profile — so drift fails `nix flake check`.
Also from the live-VM testing session: install the home-manager CLI in the
live ISO and pin flake inputs transitively (offline theme switching needs
stylix's own inputs too), plus swww→awww doc updates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full replacement of the previous iteration, rebuilt around three ideas:
- Pure evaluation: theme-state.json lives inside the flake and is read
via the nomarchy.stateFile option — no --impure, ever.
- All-Home-Manager theming: `nomarchy-theme-sync apply` writes the JSON
and runs `home-manager switch`; every theme change is one atomic,
rollbackable generation. Wallpaper (swww) is the sole runtime piece.
- Flat, downstream-first layout: modules/{nixos,home} with one
options.nix each, exported as nixosModules/homeModules + overlay +
flake template; system (nixos-rebuild) and desktop (home-manager
switch) rebuild paths are fully split.
Ships 21 themes imported from the previous iteration (palettes,
wallpapers, btop themes, six whole-swap Waybar identities), Stylix for
the GTK/Qt/cursor long tail, a live ISO target with offline theme
switching, and docs/TESTING.md with the QEMU verification workflow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
