morph VS Home Manager using Nix

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

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morph Home Manager using Nix
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724 5,937
1.5% 4.2%
6.5 9.8
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morph

Posts with mentions or reviews of morph. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-26.
  • Wir schreiben für das c't-Magazin über Linux - fragt uns alles! [Beginn um 17 Uhr]
    11 projects | /r/de_EDV | 26 Jan 2022
  • The best solution for deploying flakes
    5 projects | /r/NixOS | 30 Nov 2021
    There are 4 tools I'm taking into consideration right now, but every suggestion is welcome: 1. deploy-rs - I don't know anything about it, heard about it like a day or two ago 2. NixOps - the official one, I don't know what to think, but I have concerns about Flakes compatibility 3. morph - I understand this as "NixOps, but better", no more toughs. 4. colmena - seems to be pretty straightforward with quite nice docs
  • GitOps for NixOS
    4 projects | /r/NixOS | 25 Nov 2021
    All the configuration for the server is in the repo, and the NixOS machine is automatically built and deployed on every commit through GitHub Actions using Morph.
  • Automatically OCR scanned PDFs in NixOS
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Nov 2020
    My scanner is a Brother ADS-1700w. The server is the smallest Hetzner Cloud instance (CX11) and costs me 3 Euro's a month. I use the OCRmyPDF to run optical character recognition. The server is running NixOS and is deployed using morph. Finally, I'm using healthchecks.io to let me know when the setup breaks.

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 morph and Home Manager using Nix you can also consider the following projects:

nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.

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.

colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool

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

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

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

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

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

archwiki - MediaWiki used on Arch Linux websites (read-only mirror)

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

nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.

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