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Top 23 Nix Nix Projects
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nix-starter-configs
Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
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nixos-and-flakes-book
:hammer_and_wrench: :heart: Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place! 想要学习使用 NixOS 与 Flakes 吗？在寻找一份新手友好的教程？那你可来对地方了！
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nixos-config
Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨ (by dustinlyons)
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impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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crane
A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.
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Project mention: Tracexec: TUI for tracing execve and pre-exec behavior | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-08This will drop you into a shell where `tracexec` is installed.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/310158
Project mention: Turn Your Android Tablet into an IDE with VSCode and Nix | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-14There is also nix-on-droid[1] which is a fork of Termux allowing you to manage your environment with nix (similar to home-manager[2])
[1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-on-droid
[2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
Nix (https://nix.dev/) can provide all of this, although in a smarter way than just through dumping everything in the VCS. Some projects use it already to provide a reproducible development environment and if done right a clean build is just a `nix-build` away.
Is this an example of what you mean (home-manager is defined as part of the flake): https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/minimal/flake.nix
Project mention: NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26
I'll be honest, the first few times I tried using Nix I just couldn't get into. It was too complex for the benefits I was getting. But that was using Nix on another OS.
I recently switched to NixOS because I wanted what they were selling and the experience this time around was way better. Having no other option but to figure it out made me learn the essentials real quick (like an exchange program to a foreign country that speaks another language).
If you think about it, when you used Ubuntu or Fedora or RHEL for the first time, and probably for a very long time, you could get by without learning the deep intricacies of what is going on behind the scenes. The same is true with NixOS. The things you need to learn are different, but once you get a basic setup with home-manager setup you're off to the races. (Btw, I used this "book" to get started and it was great: https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/)
The best part about using NixOS so far is that things just work. Setting up my graphics card was as simple setting enabled = true. Same for configuring specific audio frameworks. And I had tried many times to get Davinci Resolve working on other distros and always encountered issues leading me to need to dual-boot Windows so I could do video editing. Now I just enabled Davinci Resolve and it works! No more Windows.
If you're brand new to linux on the desktop, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you've been doing that for years, maybe try NixOS in 2024.
I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.
Project mention: Obscura: The VPN that can't track your activity | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-29It's mostly bash scripts (I know I have stockholm syndrome there) and nixos-rebuild: https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/01/announcing-nixos-rebui...
All the nix deployment tools had too much magic and broke, but nixos-rebuild always works and it's part of Nix!
Disko was great for bootstrapping servers: https://github.com/nix-community/disko
# .../nixvim.nix { config, pkgs, lib, ... }: let myConfig = builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/myusername/nvim"; ref = "master"; }; nixvim = import (builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/nix-community/nixvim"; ref = "nixos-23.05"; }); sqliteLibPath = lib.makeLibraryPath [ pkgs.sqlite ]; in { imports = [ nixvim.homeManagerModules.nixvim ]; home.activation.copyLuaConfig = lib.hm.dag.entryAfter [ "writeBoundary" ] '' if [ ! -d ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim ]; then mkdir -p ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim fi shopt -s extglob cp -r ${myConfig}/!(init.lua) ${config.xdg.configHome}/nvim ''; programs.nixvim = { extraPackages = [ pkgs.sqlite ]; enable = true; extraConfigLua = '' vim.g.sqlite_clib_path = "${sqliteLibPath}" .. "/libsqlite3.so" '' + builtins.readFile "${myConfig}/init.lua"; }; }
Project mention: Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13
Project mention: Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-15I’ve been using Nix directly on MacOS with minimal issues for a few years now. Works great.
I hate using docker on Mac and have since replaced it with flakes and devenv.
My configuration with a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
- Generating virtual machines/installators from a configuration: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix and https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
Project mention: Ask HN: How to Manage Phones and PCs for Elderly Parents? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23You might want to set up NixOS with impermanence, with something like https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence. Install an easy to use desktop environment like ElementaryOS, and configure NixOS with or without Flatpak, if you want to give the user the ability to install new software or not. Then set up automatic updates, automatic garbage collection and you have a truly stable system.
Project mention: Dream2nix – Automate reproducible packaging for various language ecosystems | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-13
I'm trying to understand overlays in order to make a proper rustup install (I've read that this overlay is the best way to go).
Project mention: Can rustc generate identical binaries, with the same hash, from the same souce code? | /r/rust | 2023-06-25
So let’s get straight to the meat. The following Flake dives you a development shell that tries to replicate the underlying poetry project in full nix using poetry2nix.
Project mention: An independent package manager that every hacker deserves | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29There is also nix-portable (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), which is basically a drop-in replacement for normal nix that does everything required for no-root operation by itself when needed. Just put the single binary in your PATH and it's ready.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Maintainers Leaving
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
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Ask HN: How to Manage Phones and PCs for Elderly Parents?
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Eelco Dolstra's leadership is corrosive to the Nix project
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nix projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nixpkgs | 15,931 |
| 2 | Home Manager using Nix | 6,013 |
| 3 | nix-darwin | 2,302 |
| 4 | nix.dev | 2,084 |
| 5 | nix-starter-configs | 1,975 |
| 6 | nixos-generators | 1,545 |
| 7 | nixos-and-flakes-book | 1,537 |
| 8 | NixOS-WSL | 1,463 |
| 9 | disko | 1,291 |
| 10 | nixvim | 1,216 |
| 11 | devshell | 1,114 |
| 12 | nixos-config | 1,070 |
| 13 | microvm.nix | 1,046 |
| 14 | flake-utils | 1,026 |
| 15 | digga | 983 |
| 16 | impermanence | 924 |
| 17 | dream2nix | 873 |
| 18 | nix-1p | 867 |
| 19 | rust-overlay | 772 |
| 20 | crane | 764 |
| 21 | nix-config | 756 |
| 22 | poetry2nix | 740 |
| 23 | nix-portable | 726 |
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