home-manager: fix packages

.config/home-manager/common.nix

@@ -2,30 +2,91 @@
 
 {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
+    # base system packages + packages what I *need*
+    cloud-utils # provides growpart
+    parallel
+    pinentry # pkg summary: GnuPG’s interface to passphrase input
+    pv
+    python3Minimal
+    rsync
+    tree
+    vim # it is a necessity
+
+    # shells
+    dash
+
+    # download clients
+    curl
+    wget
+
+    # compression and decompression
+    bzip2
+    gnutar
+    gzip
+    unzip
+    xz
+    zip
+    zstd
+
+    # programming tools + compilers + interpreters
+    ghc
+    rustup # provides rustfmt, cargo-clippy, rustup, cargo, rust-lldb, rust-analyzer, rustc, rust-gdb, cargo-fmt
+
+    # dealing with other distro's packages
+    dpkg
+    rpm
+
+    # network monitoring
+    iperf # this is iperf3
+    iperf2 # this is what is usually 'iperf' on other distros
+    nload
+    trippy
+
+    # other utilities
+    android-tools
+    asciinema
+    #buildah # 1. needs to be built for some reason; 2. git is a build requirement
+    fzf
+    parted
+    picocom
+    ubootTools
+    ventoy
+
+    # utilities written in Rust
+    choose
+    du-dust
+    dua
+    fd
+    hyperfine
+    procs
+    sd
+    tre-command
+
+    # tools specific to Nix
+    nix-output-monitor
   ];
 
   programs = {
-    home-manager.enable = true;
-  };
-
-  # home-manager does not need to overwrite these files in $HOME
-  home.file = {
-    ".bash_profile".enable = false;
-    ".bashrc".enable = false;
-    ".profile".enable = false;
-  };
-
-  programs = {
-    bash = {
-      enable = true;
-      enableCompletion = true;
-    };
+    aria2.enable = true;
+    bat.enable = true;
+    bottom.enable = true;
+    broot.enable = true;
+    btop.enable = true;
     command-not-found.enable = true;
+    gpg.enable = true;
+    home-manager.enable = true;
+    htop.enable = true;
+    ripgrep.enable = true;
+    tealdeer.enable = true;
+    yt-dlp.enable = true;
+    zoxide.enable = true;
+
     direnv = {
       enable = true;
       enableBashIntegration = true;
       nix-direnv.enable = true;
     };
+
     neovim = {
       enable = true;
       extraPackages = with pkgs; [
@@ -41,13 +102,22 @@
         tree-sitter # otherwise nvim complains that the binary 'tree-sitter' is not found
       ];
     };
+
+    skim = {
+      enable = true;
+      enableBashIntegration = true;
+    };
   };
 
   nix = {
     package = pkgs.nix;
     checkConfig = true;
-    settings = {
-      experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+    settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+
+    gc = {
+      automatic = true;
+      frequency = "weekly";
+      options = "--delete-older-than 14d";
     };
   };
 

.config/home-manager/darwin.nix

@@ -2,8 +2,50 @@
 
 {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
+    # base system packages + packages what I *need*
+    coreutils-prefixed
+    gawk
+    gnugrep
+    gnused
+
+    # for media consumption, manipulation and metadata info
+    ffmpeg
+    imagemagick
+    mediainfo
+
+    # GUI apps
+    meld
+    utm
+
+    # fonts
+    (nerdfonts.override {
+      fonts = [
+        "FiraCode"
+        "Overpass"
+        "SourceCodePro"
+      ];
+    })
   ];
 
+  programs = {
+    mpv.enable = true;
+    alacritty.enable = true;
+    tmux.enable = true;
+    bash = {
+      enable = true;
+      enableCompletion = true;
+    };
+  };
+
+  # home-manager does not need to overwrite these files in $HOME
+  xdg.configFile = {
+  };
+  home.file = {
+    ".bash_profile".enable = false;
+    ".bashrc".enable = false;
+    ".profile".enable = false;
+  };
+
   targets.darwin = {
     currentHostDefaults = {
       "com.apple.controlcenter".BatteryShowPercentage = true;

.config/home-manager/linux.nix

@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ in
 
 {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
+    # base system packages + packages what I *need*
+    smartmontools
+    wol
+
+    # virtualisation
+    libvirt
+    qemu_kvm
+    virt-manager
   ];
 
   systemd.user = {