Choose your path

hearth is a NixOS flake. How you install it depends on what you are starting from. Pick the row that matches you.

Your situation	Start here
You already run NixOS on the target machine	Existing NixOS host
You have a spare machine or a hypervisor (Proxmox, etc.)	Fresh install (VM / Proxmox)
You are new to Linux or NixOS	Linux / NixOS primer, then come back

Tip

If you just want to read the config and validate it without deploying anything, the Quickstart is enough. You only need a machine with Nix.