nix-template
Make creating nix expressions easy (by jonringer)
nix-gui
Use NixOS Without Coding (by nix-gui)
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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-template
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-template.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-05.
- How do I get the sha256 for a package to use in fetchFromGithub command ?
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Have you heard of NixOS/template?
Shameless plug, but related: https://github.com/jonringer/nix-template
- Nix-template: Make creating nix expressions easy
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How to Learn Nix
It sounds like https://github.com/jonringer/nix-template might be helpful to you. You can generate a nix expression to build an autotools package, and you can even pull the package info straight from a public repo. In the case of nix, most C-type things fall under stdenv, so that is the template you would want to use.
I barely write any C, but I've gotten very good at building C/C++ applications over the past couple of weeks by fixing broken derivations ahead of a release.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-template and nix-gui you can also consider the following projects:
lorri - Your project’s nix-env [maintainer=@Profpatsch,@nyarly]
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
templates - Flake templates
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
nixos-mailserver
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
nurl - Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs [maintainer=@figsoda]
nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that
nickel - Better configuration for less