Additional arguments passed to each module in addition to ones like lib, config, and pkgs, modulesPath.

This option is also available to all submodules. Submodules do not inherit args from their parent module, nor do they provide args to their parent module or sibling submodules. The sole exception to this is the argument name which is provided by parent modules to a submodule and contains the attribute name the submodule is bound to, or a unique generated name if it is not bound to an attribute.

Some arguments are already passed by default, of which the following cannot be changed with this option:

• lib: The nixpkgs library.

• config: The results of all options after merging the values from all modules together.

• options: The options declared in all modules.

• specialArgs: The specialArgs argument passed to evalModules.

• All attributes of specialArgs

  Whereas option values can generally depend on other option values thanks to laziness, this does not apply to imports, which must be computed statically before anything else.

  For this reason, callers of the module system can provide specialArgs which are available during import resolution.

  For NixOS, specialArgs includes modulesPath, which allows you to import extra modules from the nixpkgs package tree without having to somehow make the module aware of the location of the nixpkgs or NixOS directories.

  { modulesPath, ... }: {
    imports = [
      (modulesPath + "/profiles/minimal.nix")
    ];
  }
  

For NixOS, the default value for this option includes at least this argument:

• pkgs: The nixpkgs package set according to the nixpkgs.pkgs option.

Default accent for the color scheme.

Default flavor for the color scheme.

Namespace for Linux-only core settings. Empty on Darwin.

Whether to enable wireless.

Whether to enable zfs.

Whether to enable zfs request credentials.

List of home directories to ensure exist on boot

List of system directories to ensure exist on boot

List of home cache directories to persist

List of home data directories to persist

ZFS root dataset for rollback functionality

List of system cache directories to persist

List of system data directories to persist

Whether to enable shared development packages.

Whether to enable Cloud tools.

Whether to enable Database tools.

Whether to enable Dev Tools.

Whether to enable Go development.

Whether to enable IaC tools.

Whether to enable Infrastructure tools.

Whether to enable Kubernetes tools.

Whether to enable Networking tools.

Whether to enable Python development.

Whether to enable Security tools.

Whether to enable docker.

Whether to enable Libvirt/KVM.

Default font for the system.

Whether to enable firefox.

Whether to enable obsidian.

Whether to enable graphical environment.

Whether to enable fuzzel.

Whether to enable hyprlandwm.

Whether to enable hyprlock.

Whether to enable hyprpaper.

Whether to enable key management.

Whether to enable laptop configuration.

Whether to enable Sound.

Whether to enable Enable swaync.

Enable graphical theme configuration including fonts, GTK, and Qt theming

Whether to enable Waybar Status Bar.

Whether to enable xdg folders.

Whether the host is a Darwin system.

Whether the host is a Linux system.

Prefix for persistent cache storage

Prefix for persistent data storage

Whether to enable Enable persistence/impermanence.

NixOS state version

Time zone for the system.

Default editor

User email address

User full name

User GPG key

User home directory

Primary user name

Default shell

Work email address