nixos-config
My Personal Nix, NixOS and Nix-Darwin System Configuration Flake (by MatthiasBenaets)
flake-utils-plus
Use Nix flakes without any fluff. (by gytis-ivaskevicius)
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nixos-config
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-config.
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- Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
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Hyprland - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots that doesn't sacrifice on its looks
I also took a lot of inspiration from this NixOS config that I think demonstrates a lot of things you can do with them.
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
Check this repo for reference https://github.com/MatthiasBenaets/nixos-config
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Passing variables from one file to another.
The other one I've seen seems more elegant, but I've only seen once and doesn't seem to be fully explain by the author: https://github.com/MatthiasBenaets/nixos-config/blob/master/flake.nix I've tried what he's showcasing here, but it doesn't work the variables are undefined and the tips given by nix-rebuild aren't enough for me to make sense of it.
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Distrotube — NixOS Is The Power User Distro (Now With An Easy Installer!)
# nixos-generate-config --root /mnt # git clone https://github.com/matthiasbenaets/nixos-config /mnt/etc/nixos/ (I think this can also be avoided I forgot to check this :| ) # cp /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix /mnt/etc/nixos/nixos-config/hosts//. # cd /mnt/etc/nixos/ # nixos-install --flake .#
flake-utils-plus
Posts with mentions or reviews of flake-utils-plus.
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[Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?
You don't need channels to use nix-shell or nix-env. You can generate the Nix path and registry from your flake inputs. flake-utils-plus makes this easy with nix.generateRegistryFromInputs and nix.generateNixPathFromInputs.
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How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
Use flake-utils-plus to easily define multiple systems in flake.nix.and then use the --target-host flag of nixos-rebuild to deploy it remotely.
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Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
If you're trying to handle multiple systems with one config a flake is a significantly better option. I would personally recommend looking at flake-utils-plus and specifically this example config.
- Nix Flakes
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Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
I looked at some past threads / examples and saw people recommend flake-utils-plus, but after reading the examples I don't understand how I would get home-manager on Darwin or Ubuntu.
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Depending on your specific needs, the channelsConfig (modify arguments passed to Nixpkgs) and overlay tooling in flake-utils-plus may be adequate: https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/tree/...
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What to do...
For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
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How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
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I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
Neat! I've been using flake-utils-plus's implementation until now. https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/flake-utils-plus/blob/master/lib/repl.nix
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How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixos-config and flake-utils-plus you can also consider the following projects:
dotfiles - NixOS system config & Home-Manager user config
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles
flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]
system - Declarative system configurations using nixOS, nix-darwin, and home-manager
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration
poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]
nixpkgs - My Nix system configs!
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container
nix-starter-configs - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.
nixos-config vs dotfiles
flake-utils-plus vs Home Manager using Nix
nixos-config vs dotfiles
flake-utils-plus vs flake-utils
nixos-config vs system
flake-utils-plus vs nixGL
nixos-config vs nix-config
flake-utils-plus vs poetry2nix
nixos-config vs nixpkgs
flake-utils-plus vs NixOS-docker
nixos-config vs nix-starter-configs
flake-utils-plus vs deploy-rs