| dotfiles | nix-gui | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 29 | |
| 3,210 | 645 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 5.1 | 0.0 | |
| 2 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Shell | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-20.
- Toolship: A (More) Secure Workstation
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Print Git Status in Your Tmux Statusbar
The function we will use for this is borrowed from jessfraz/dotfiles.
- Docker for Desktop Applications
nix-gui
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-gui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-03.
- System settings that aren’t in System Settings
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AI roasts NixOS users
This is pretty close https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui
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Which newer, up and coming distros do you think will make it?
Nix based aiming at beginners. If it combines/works with https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui, then an amazing distro may be created. It would be user friendly, but also extremely powerful, allowing basically everything to be configured via the gui. Both softwares are alpha state, but I am excited to see what they bring.
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Using NixOS on corporate laptops.
Maybe https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui? I dunno if it can do userspace config though.
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Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
Would it make sense to integrate something like nix gui into this?
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NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
I remember when I first started using NixOS, as a confused beginner I tried to find a graphical application to manage and edit my configuration. I stumbled upon Nix-Gui, however, I didn’t really like the look, it crashed a fair amount, and I never really figured out how to use it. That said, their idea and all of the hard work they put into their project inspired me to make a similar application that focuses more on simplicity and ease of use.
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NIX GUI application to manage nixos build with graphical ui.
I was wondering if you are aware of https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui and how your tool compares to it
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Is flatpak really the future?
There is also a GUI in development, hopefully it will help casual users in the future.
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How do I contribute to NixOS?
There's https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui for a gui like experience.
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NixOS History and Our Experience - Nix, Null, Nada, Nothing
Configuration language usage: Probably a major win for programmers, but a major negative for non-programmers. However, nix-gui has shown that there's potential for gui-based nixos configuration. And this might one day be extended to use as part of the graphical installer. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-is-there-no-installer-for-nixos/16644/21. Since nix can be serialized and deserialized to json, there's actually a fair amount of interoperability able to be done to manipulate nix configuration using existing libraries.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and nix-gui you can also consider the following projects:
qtile-polybar
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
neovim-dots - beautiful neovim setup configured in lua [Moved to: https://github.com/siduck76/NvChad]
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
NvChad - An attempt to make neovim cli as functional as an IDE while being very beautiful , blazing fast. [Moved to: https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad]
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
gitmux - :computer: Git in your tmux status bar
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
nickel - Better configuration for less