flakes VS Home Manager using Nix

Compare flakes vs Home Manager using Nix and see what are their differences.

flakes

在数字混沌的深渊中,一个独特的雪花诞生了,由古老的代码之焰锻造,赋予了Nix的精华。时间在此停滞,命运正被重写! (by Ruixi-rebirth)
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flakes Home Manager using Nix
2 183
31 5,969
- 4.7%
2.7 9.8
10 days ago 5 days ago
Nix Nix
MIT License MIT License
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flakes

Posts with mentions or reviews of flakes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-13.
  • Need some Help !
    4 projects | /r/NixOS | 13 Jun 2023
    I need some explainations, I can't find specific resources to make me clearly understand about nixos.I know this is just like immutable Linux distro with an amazing pkg manager.I installed nixos once when I didn't know much or learn much about nixos.I installed with calamaris installer(sry if I misspelled) with kde.Now I know alot about basics of nix but need some facts there. Now I'm using arch again. I'll install if II want to use Bspwm or qtile but I don't want displaye manager.Can I use just startx to start my wms?and How to figure things like alacritry ,neofetch,etc,etc.Like normal ways in .config folder?Can I use ext4?Coz I found this GitHub page he said mkfs.ext4 ,nixos uses btrfs? so, see this and pls answer me. https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes
  • Package availability
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 30 Jan 2023
    Ruixi-rebirth/nixos-config

Home Manager using Nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Home Manager using Nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.
  • Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024
    It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.

    [0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/

  • How do I actually update home-manager?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023
    $ home-manager --version 23.05 $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz home-manager $ nix-channel --update $ nix-shell '' -A install [...] All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit /home/MY-USERNAME/.config/home-manager/home.nix to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to see all available options. $ home-manager --version 23.05
  • Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023
    Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
  • Exclude packages in home manager
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 5 Dec 2023
  • An Overview of Nix in Practice
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    > Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs

    It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.

    Per the Nix manual[0]:

    > Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.

    e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:

      nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
  • Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
    It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].

    1. https://nixos.org/

    2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

  • Noob question: Where home-manager config after installed on archlinux
    1 project | /r/Nix | 11 Sep 2023
    nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager nix-channel --update nix-shell '' -A install
  • Need help on home manager neovim config
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 11 Sep 2023
    I'm using flakes and home manager and not really sure how to go about managing my neovim configuration. I've read through some other posts, github issues, and various articles trying to suss out a good way to do this. Reading through other people's configs and posts was somewhat helpful but there is a lot going on I don't understand and everyone's examples I've seen vary wildly.
  • Recurring 'Home Manager not found' Error After Running nix-collect-garbage"
    1 project | /r/Nix | 11 Aug 2023
    Said store path contains the home-manager repo. After the home-manager run, the store path is recreated.
  • I want to like NixOS but... I can't and I need some help
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 12 Jul 2023
    I can't answer all your questions, but home-manager does have a dconf module that would probably be better to use than that external tool. Everything inside the options block are the things you can pass to the dconf module.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flakes and Home Manager using Nix you can also consider the following projects:

dotfiles - My dotfiles are here, managed with Chezmoi and NixOS Flakes

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

.flakes - flake

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

dotfiles - My dotfiles about Neovim, Hyprland, Waybar ...

nixos-flake-example - This is a demo NixOS config, with optional flakes support. Along with notes on why flakes is useful and worth adopting.

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS

NixOS-WSL - NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]

hyprfocus - a focus animation plugin for Hyprland inspired by Flashfocus

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

senixos - My NixOS dofiles: sway, neovim, zsh, alacritty

chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.