NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com
Linux Nix Nixos nix-flake nix-flakes

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
featured
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com
featured

  • wiki

    Nixos wiki [maintainer=@samueldr] (by nix-community)

    • One big issue with the NixOS wiki is that the maintainer of the web server is unresponsive for a long time [0]. Therefore, the wiki software is really out of date and using the page editor is a real pain in the butt [1].

    I tried to write more for the wiki while learning things about NixOS. But it's so annoying to make changes that I eventually gave up.

    I really like NixOS and Nix in general, it just lacks a central and organized, community maintained documentation like the Arch wiki. So, I hope either the maintainer will eventually become available again (unlikely IMO) and update the server, or we could mirror the current wiki on a new server.

    [0] - [https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/46](https://git...

  • 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！

    • It would be useful if the wiki articles showed a 'last modified at' date. Articles like this [0] dominate search results, but it's not clear how outdated the info is. I

    In case anyone is looking for an up-to-date NixOS guide/cookbook, I've found lots of value in this [1] resource.

    [0] - https://nixos.wiki/wiki/PulseAudio

    [1] - https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • Flakes Question (because I'm a noob)

    1 project | /r/NixOS | 7 Dec 2023

  • NixOS and Flakes Book

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023

  • [Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?

    1 project | /r/NixOS | 8 Jul 2023

  • How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?

    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 26 Jan 2023

  • I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration

    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 11 Feb 2022