nix-software-center VS nix-gui

Compare nix-software-center vs nix-gui and see what are their differences.

nix-software-center

A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages (by snowfallorg)

nix-gui

Use NixOS Without Coding (by nix-gui)
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nix-software-center nix-gui
11 29
436 638
9.6% 2.5%
5.6 0.0
2 months ago over 1 year ago
Rust Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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nix-software-center

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-software-center. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.
  • Have you convinced anyone to use Nix or NixOS? Friends? Coworkers?
    5 projects | /r/NixOS | 16 Apr 2023
  • AI roasts NixOS users
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 26 Mar 2023
  • what are the advantages and disadvantages between nix-env and nix profile
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 3 Feb 2023
    That makes sense, too. You might also be interested in nix software center.
  • SnowflakeOS - Creating a GUI focused NixOS-based distro
    10 projects | /r/NixOS | 20 Sep 2022
    I definitely agree! So far I've tried to make my tools, namely nixos-conf-editor and nix-software-center work in conjunction with manually managing .nix files. And I definitely hope once stable they can help draw more people into learning nix
    10 projects | /r/NixOS | 20 Sep 2022
    I don't plan on it at this moment, however, if someone finishes the packagekit backend for Nix, the appstream data I'm working on collecting would work to display icons and screenshots. Also if someone who knew qt/kirigami development wanted to make something similar to nix-software-center, the backend tool that reads and modifies configuration values is a separate project: nix-editor, and I would be willing to help with any issues that arose from that.
    10 projects | /r/NixOS | 20 Sep 2022
    In my opinion, NixOS is a great operating system and is very straightforward and stable once you learn how to use it, however for someone without knowledge about Nix or who has never heard of NixOS, it can be very confusing. I stumbled upon Nix and NixOS a bit less than a year ago, and since then have worked to try to create tools that make using NixOS more user/noob friendly, namely: adding the calamares installer to NixOS, creating a graphical configuration editor: nixos-conf-editor, and creating a GNOME software-like software center: nix-software-center.
  • Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
    11 projects | /r/NixOS | 8 Sep 2022
    building Nix... building the system configuration... copying path '/nix/store/n4ly8q7x7k4bf4hdgxjrrv955n1404a4-glibc-locales-2.35-163' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'... building '/nix/store/wby1m40a39dj4xwy16nvcspn76wng706-source.drv'... trying https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center/archive/0.0.1.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 1212k 0 1212k 0 0 1209k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 1856k unpacking source archive /build/0.0.1.tar.gz error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/wby1m40a39dj4xwy16nvcspn76wng706-source.drv': specified: sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= got: sha256-uolXh0z6gRBUZIXVSGyLn3swogz7VHvCwKCr02BejTQ= (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
    11 projects | /r/NixOS | 8 Sep 2022

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nix-software-center and nix-gui you can also consider the following projects:

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

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 ~/

nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!

OpenDeck - Software and hardware platform for simpler building of MIDI controllers.

devshell - Per project developer environments