flake-utils-plus vs nixos-config

flake-utils-plus

Use Nix flakes without any fluff. (by gytis-ivaskevicius)

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My NixOS configuration. (by casept)

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flake-utils-plus

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[Question] When using flakes, can I remove all channels?
1 project | /r/NixOS | 8 Jul 2023

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.
How do I deploy a configuration to a machine with an existing hardware-configuration.nix?
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 26 Jan 2023

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.
Have a shell command in configuration.nix that runs on nixos-rebuild
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 29 Dec 2022

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
5 projects | /r/NixOS | 29 Dec 2022
Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
8 projects | /r/NixOS | 2 Oct 2022

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.
Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022

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/...
What to do...
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Jun 2022

For flakes you don't have to set up everything manually there are helper libraries, I use flake-utils-plus.
How shall I install a package not found at https://search.nixos.org/packages?
3 projects | /r/NixOS | 17 Mar 2022

Converting to flakes is not that hard if you use a good library. The documentation is other people's configs, really.
I made a thing you can load in Nix repl to get variables from your NixOS configuration
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 11 Feb 2022

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
How to use a patched nixpkgs locally?
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 3 Feb 2022

I use flake-utils-plus based configuration to apply patches on top of nixpkgs where overlays don't suffice.

nixos-config

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NixOS 21.05 Released
39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021

Given that you already have flakeified everything, it's not that hard to pull in a different version of nixpkgs and cherry-pick packages from it. I have a (somewhat complex) setup utilizing this: https://github.com/casept/nixos-config

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flake-utils-plus and nixos-config you can also consider the following projects:

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

nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!

flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

archbox - Easy to use Arch Linux chroot environment with some functionalities to integrate it with your existing Linux installation. Mirror of https://momodev.lemniskett.moe/lemniskett/archbox

nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

not-os - An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that, given a config, outputs a small (47 MB), read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating system, with support for iPXE and signed boot.

poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container

deploy-rs - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool.