How to Install and Customize NixOS Linux (2026 Edition) | Part 1

This is a quick and painless tutorial on how to install NixOS, which some view as the end-game of Linux, in many respects. NixOS Download: https://nixos.org/download/ NixOS Official Install Manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/ MyNixos Documentation: https://mynixos.com/ Alacritty Config: https://alacritty.org/config-alacritty.html Dotfiles: https://github.com/tonybanters/nixos-dotfiles *Part 2 (Home Manager):* 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 0:32 Download 1:00 Begin Installation 1:54 Create Partitions 3:10 Make Filesystems 3:40 Mount Drives 4:34 Generate NixOS Config 5:36 Modify NixOS Config File 9:59 Install NixOS 10:44 Login and Post Install Config 11:43 How to Install Programs 12:11 Btop Stats 13:00 Setup Wallpaper 16:26 Begin Alacritty Rice 19:20 Install Rofi and File Manager 21:07 Qtile Config + Keybinds 23:31 Upgrade Packages (-Syu) 23:52 Using Git to Version Control Configs 25:56 Obligatory Pfetch #linux #nixos #install