dotfiles VS nix-config

Compare dotfiles vs nix-config and see what are their differences.

nix-config

Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-config (by Warbo)
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dotfiles nix-config
436 4
1,411 5
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0.0 4.5
over 1 year ago over 2 years ago
Nix Nix
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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 2021-01-01.

nix-config

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-config. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
  • 20 Years of Nix
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
    > I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors.

    Heh, that reminds me of installing NixOS back around 2014. I didn't have any way to physically boot off the install CD; so I ran it in qemu, using my real /dev/sda as the "virtual" hard drive (which I'd already partitioned). Thankfully there was no interference with the host system (Trisquel).

    I'm still using (and evolved version of) the same NixOS config to this day; it still contains the following comment ( https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/nixos/machin... ):

      trace "FIXME: Which modules are artefacts of using QEMU to install?"
  • The Curse of NixOS
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
    Where nixpkgs2105 is a pinned revision of the Nixpkgs repo, defined in another overlay. My current Nix config has pinned Nixpkgs versions going back to 2016. For example, here's a bunch of such overrides:

    https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/overrides/fi...

    At the moment I'm using niv to manage the pinned Nixpkgs versions (the 'repoXXXX' entries):

    https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nix/sources...

  • Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2021
    `nix-env` is an imperative command, whilst writing a .nix file is declarative. In particular, the latter can be managed using git.

    For example, here's a system-wide config dating back to Feb 2015: https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config

    (That's actually a NixOS config; my macOS config is in a private repo, but it imports that repo to define its "one big system package")

  • XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2021
    > I'd like to see other configs from nix users too if you're still here!

    Here's mine https://github.com/warbo/nix-config

    I've used Nix/NixOS for about 8 years, but not delved into flakes yet.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and nix-config you can also consider the following projects:

nixos - NixOS Configuration

homebrew-cask-versions - 🔢 Alternate versions of Casks

nixos - My NixOS Configurations

pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories

linuxdeploy-cli - Linux Deploy CLI

nvd

dotfiles - My dotfiles for Neovim, Kitty terminal, Zsh, and a few other things.

homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.

dotfiles - dotfiles to provision a new macOS with cosy dev setups

waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

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