How to Use NixOS Flakes (2026 Edition) | Full Install Guide

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This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to install and configure flakes in NixOS, which is the modern best practice way to manage your NixOS files, and pin your packages to specific commit versions. *NixOS Flakes Wiki:* https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes *MyNixos Documentation:* https://mynixos.com/ *Ghostty:* https://ghostty.org/docs *Git Repo:* https://github.com/tonybanters/nixos-flakes-btw/ *Donate:* https://ko-fi.com/tonybtw *Discord:* https://discord.gg/5w54SuE26V *Part 1:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUB2rwDUm5A *Part 2:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFmvnJVd5yQ *Music:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPrgNFnbAhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7FMagiTFk Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:39 Download Iso 1:12 Launch Live CD 1:20 NixOS Install Wizard 3:14 Launch KDE Plasma 4:35 Edit Config File 4:54 Install Vim and Ghostty 5:18 How To Search for Packages 6:25 Rebuild NixOS 7:33 Change Hostname 8:22 Enable Flakes 8:39 Create First Flake 10:50 Generate flake.lock File 12:01 How To Update Packages 12:51 Install More Programs 14:28 How To Version Control 16:31 Create Git Repo 17:00 Clone Repo on New Machine 17:31 Install Flake on New Machine 19:24 Obligatory Neofetch 19:35 Thanking Producer #linux #nixos #install #flakes