nix-gui
Use NixOS Without Coding (by nix-gui)
devshell
Per project developer environments (by numtide)
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| nix-gui | devshell | |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | 14 | |
| 638 | 1,095 | |
| 2.5% | 6.4% | |
| 0.0 | 7.9 | |
| over 1 year ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Nix | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nix-gui
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-gui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-03.
- System settings that aren’t in System Settings
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AI roasts NixOS users
This is pretty close https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui
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Which newer, up and coming distros do you think will make it?
Nix based aiming at beginners. If it combines/works with https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui, then an amazing distro may be created. It would be user friendly, but also extremely powerful, allowing basically everything to be configured via the gui. Both softwares are alpha state, but I am excited to see what they bring.
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Using NixOS on corporate laptops.
Maybe https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui? I dunno if it can do userspace config though.
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Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
Would it make sense to integrate something like nix gui into this?
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NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
I remember when I first started using NixOS, as a confused beginner I tried to find a graphical application to manage and edit my configuration. I stumbled upon Nix-Gui, however, I didn’t really like the look, it crashed a fair amount, and I never really figured out how to use it. That said, their idea and all of the hard work they put into their project inspired me to make a similar application that focuses more on simplicity and ease of use.
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NIX GUI application to manage nixos build with graphical ui.
I was wondering if you are aware of https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui and how your tool compares to it
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Is flatpak really the future?
There is also a GUI in development, hopefully it will help casual users in the future.
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How do I contribute to NixOS?
There's https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui for a gui like experience.
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NixOS History and Our Experience - Nix, Null, Nada, Nothing
Configuration language usage: Probably a major win for programmers, but a major negative for non-programmers. However, nix-gui has shown that there's potential for gui-based nixos configuration. And this might one day be extended to use as part of the graphical installer. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-is-there-no-installer-for-nixos/16644/21. Since nix can be serialized and deserialized to json, there's actually a fair amount of interoperability able to be done to manipulate nix configuration using existing libraries.
devshell
Posts with mentions or reviews of devshell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.
- Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
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Any tips for setting up a local development environment for wordpress?
numtide/devshell is cool little extension to bare devshells, you may wanna have it.
- Devshell – like virtualenv, but for all the languages
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Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
There is also devshell[1] which allows you to configure specific commands for your `env` and sits inside your flake.
[1]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell
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Just, Nix Shell and Podman are a Killer Combo
devshell is pretty useful too :)
- Ask HN: What is your development workflow on the MacBook M1?
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Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
I'm new to the Nix world, but so far I've come across Divnix's Digga, Numtide's DevShell, and Misterio77's nix-starter-configs.
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Annoncing Shix, tailored development shells made with Nix
How does it differ from https://github.com/numtide/devshell ?
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Nim packages stats
But take a look at devshell is like the NixOS/HomeManager of your (any language) project. I over abused it to create YAML files and to use Nim as script
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Use remote package derivation file with nix-shell --packages option
Here's an example with devShell as a remote repository: sh nix-shell -p '(import (fetchGit "https://github.com/numtide/devshell") {}).cli'
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-gui and devshell you can also consider the following projects:
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
nix-direnv - A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
nix-config - :space_invader: NixOS configuration
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
nickel - Better configuration for less
flake-template - My template for Nix flakes