dotfiles VS nixfiles

Compare dotfiles vs nixfiles and see what are their differences.

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dotfiles nixfiles
4 8
447 149
- -
9.9 9.0
about 13 hours ago 21 days ago
Nix Nix
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.

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 2023-06-19.

nixfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and nixfiles you can also consider the following projects:

emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]

sops-nix - Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

NixOS-Guide - NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.

nixos - My NixOS Configurations

agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager

nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin

.dots - just my .dotfiles

flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.

digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]