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nix-gui
- 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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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.
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/NixOS Subdirect Statistics
I saw an attempt at Nix GUI configuration a while back and it seems kind of interesting, but I agree with one of the first comments on the announcement thread:
nix-bundle
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Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here
I admit that there is an element of, "but I chose an obscure and challenging linux variant, waaah why isn't it supported" here, but (a) there's currently no flatpak and (b) when, for goodness sakes, will major linux projects begin packaging for Nix/NixOS as a matter of course?
It's not hard, and the benefits go far outside merely supporting Nix, as e.g. a flake.nix file would allow this project to generate docker images, and appImage images, as basically afterthoughts. (See e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle.)
Nix flake support would also provide a perfectly reproducible build environment, which can help clarify dependencies, and thus help the project build achieve idempotence, but I'll save the full shill for some github issue.
In fact, I'm inclined to roll up my shirtsleeves and help make this real.
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Container runtime as a static binary?
https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle perhaps?
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Pushing/marketing the nix package manager as a Flatpak/Snap competitor?
Another way to approach this would be to advocate Nix as the build system for Flatpak or AppImage. Don't know what the status is of nix-bundle, but if it is possible to turn a Nix package into an AppImage with little extra work that would be ideal.
Somewhat related, I wanted to mention nix-bundler it allows to wrap an application with nix into a single file.
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Flaptak (and Snap) is not the future
Nix itself is more focused on "distribute from this host with nix, to this other host with nix".
Though, here is e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle, which is supported as an experimental command in nix 2.4.
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Does Nix or NixOS address the problem raised by Linus Torvalds on package management?
I believe this tool does: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle
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NixOS 21.05 Released
Yes, it's extremely powerful once you truly understand Nix.
There are efforts to improve documentation, but it still is lacking (I think the biggest problem is that Nix is so big, not just the OS but it can be utilized as a build system).
Just with NixOS is not exactly clear how can you for example build your custom image.
I think https://nix.dev/ is approaching the documentation from the right direction.
There are also many pieces that people built that you need to find.
For example some things that I found accidentally:
* https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle
* https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
Unfortunately those side projects often have even worse documentation.
What are some alternatives?
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
runix
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
nickel - Better configuration for less
us.zoom.Zoom
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
dotfiles - There is no place like ~/
nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]
OpenDeck - Software and hardware platform for simpler building of MIDI controllers.