impermanence VS nixos-config

Compare impermanence vs nixos-config and see what are their differences.

impermanence

Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz] (by nix-community)

nixos-config

Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates ✨ (by dustinlyons)
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impermanence nixos-config
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840 894
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5.9 9.9
about 1 month ago 8 days ago
Nix Nix
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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impermanence

Posts with mentions or reviews of impermanence. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
  • Silverblue users: why?
    4 projects | /r/Fedora | 23 Jun 2023
    This is indeed a blind spot. Thanks for pointing that out! Silverblue -to my knowledge- doesn't do a lot to address this. Though, 3rd-party tools like Home Manager and the suite of applications developed by the folks over at uBlue might be able to limit this to a minimum. Though I'm not sure if it surpasses NixOS in this regard; for the uninitiated. Though, to my knowledge, this requires special attention and depends on the specifics of the NixOS system in question.
  • NixOS for the Impatient
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
  • Interested in NixOS, have some questions
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 4 Apr 2023
    Some files in /etc (like saved networks) will still not be managed by NixOS, if you want to have full control over them use Impermanence
  • Upgrading to NixOS 22.11 Issue
    5 projects | /r/NixOS | 24 Jan 2023
    { imports = [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix") "${builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware.git"; }}/system76" "${builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence.git"; }}/nixos.nix" ];
  • Good guides for a non-developer using NixOS?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 26 Nov 2022
    There is a maintained collection of modules for running this kind of NixOS setup. It's called impermanence.
  • 48hrs with Fedora Silverblue and I'm SOLD. Question: does anyone else use a volatile home ?
    5 projects | /r/linux | 17 Nov 2022
    https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings https://nixos.org/ https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
  • First post, here's my home lab and how I use it every day (running Proxmox and NixOS)
    3 projects | /r/homelab | 14 Nov 2022
    I'm also fascinated by the idea of completely decoupling the state from the configuration using https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence. If you can get your system working without leftover state sticking around, and continuously back up the state you do have, you're almost guaranteed to have a fully working environment at all times.
  • First post, here's what my homelab does running Proxmox and NixOS
    3 projects | /r/homelab | 13 Nov 2022
    Drop Proxmox for vanilla NixOS + kvm. Working towards impermanence to manage persistent state everywhere.
  • Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022
    docs nixos: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/

    This tooling includes higher-level helpers for language-/environment-specific packaging, like "buildGoModule", "buildRustPackage" and so on, as well as e.g. tooling to run integration tests in a whole cluster of inter-connected linux VMs!

    Packages which are submitted to nixpkgs must fulfill certain criteria, such as not using "IFD" (input-from-derivation, to simplify: "letting nix evaluate nix-code which was generated by another deriviation/"nix package".

    nixpkgs is alive and well with lots of daily contribution and an everlasting effort to keep Hydra, the nix-specific CI/CD system and public binary caches up to date and responsive. Thanks to all maintainers & contributors!

    * flakes are an approach to standardize a way to package nix code outside of nixpkgs but to still keep it re-usable. They are still "experimental" as the details are figured out, but nevertheless used in production. There are some frame-works to keep boilerplate low, like "flake-utils", "flake-parts" and others, as well as e.g. deployment tools like "colmena" and "deploy-rs" and re-usable helpers for system-configuration like e.g. https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence

    There's lots of other stuff in the community, things like home-manager, direnv + flakes and devshells changed my workflow fundamentally to the better since I've switched. If you got the time and are still interested, join us on matrix or elsewhere :)

  • How can you keep a Linux installation tidy and minimal?
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 22 Jun 2022
    I haven't set this up for my personal machines yet but you can trivially use a tmpfs as your / and then use impermanence to explicitly opt into stateful files and directories that you want to keep across reboots like login passwords, host keys etc.

nixos-config

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-config. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing impermanence and nixos-config you can also consider the following projects:

home-manager - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager]

nix-config - Nix configurations

nixpkgs - My Nix system configs!

raspi-overlayroot - Protect your SD card against wear and tear

nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration

dotfiles - My personal dotfiles

nix-prisma-example - An example Prisma project using nix

nix-config - Personal nixos and home-manager configurations.

nix-embedded - Nix embedded image generator.

guix-config - Literate configuration for Guix Linux ⛰️

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

dotfiles - My PC Dotfiles & Website