nix-mate
Installing stuff with Nix made easy (by danieljharvey)
nixos-manager
Manage your NixOS packages and configuration via a simple, intuitive UI (by pmiddend)
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| nix-mate | nixos-manager | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 7 | 170 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 3 years ago | almost 4 years ago | |
| Haskell | Haskell | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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-mate
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-mate.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
nixos-manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-manager.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-07.
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Best UI Toolkit for generating UI elements at runtime
the version of GTK supported by gi-gtk is far from current, not to mention that gi-gtk itself, according to this discussion, isn't being as actively developed as it used to be.
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Why isn't NixOS more popular
You may want to check out this link. I have not checked it myself yet but it looks promising, although it looks like it has not been updated for some time.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-mate and nixos-manager you can also consider the following projects:
nixfmt - The official (but not yet stable) formatter for Nix code
cachix - Command line client for Nix binary cache hosting:
threepenny-gui - GUI framework that uses the web browser as a display.
nix-deploy - Deploy software or an entire NixOS system configuration to another NixOS system
gi-atk - Generate Haskell bindings for GObject-Introspection capable libraries