nixos-conf-editor
A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations (by snowfallorg)
system-updater
Systemd services for checking for and applying system updates. (by pop-os)
nixos-conf-editor | system-updater | |
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7 | 4 | |
410 | 27 | |
8.3% | - | |
5.3 | 1.7 | |
3 months ago | 3 months ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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nixos-conf-editor
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-conf-editor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.
- AI roasts NixOS users
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SnowflakeOS - Creating a GUI focused NixOS-based distro
Sounds a lot like nixos-conf-editor :) It allows for arbitrary nix code to be set for any option, and evaluates it to check for the correct type before setting it as the value in your configuration file
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Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
Actually already made a similar tool :) https://github.com/vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor
- NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
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auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
I definitely plan to support as much as I can, but there is definitely a level of complexity that can never be truly translated to a graphical tool. What I've found helpful during development for me is that I split the frontend GUI and the backed parser and editor into two projects (nixos-conf-editor and nix-editor), that way I could tackle a lot of the parsing and editing alone without worrying about specific GUI features needed (and use it for other projects). Later when I need some feature I add it to nix-editor. So far nix-editor supports simple attribute modification, array adding and popping, and recursive attribute definition and dereferencing. It's definitely not perfect by any means, but so far it's been enough for the projects I've been working on. I definitely need to credit any success I've had so far to the developers of rnix-parser which translates nix expression to easy to manage ASTs.
system-updater
Posts with mentions or reviews of system-updater.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-10.
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The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
pop-system-updater
- Do most folks have Automatic Updates turned on?
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auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
The most I've heard of is the Pop! OS system updater (https://github.com/pop-os/system-updater) does support updating nix packages (see https://github.com/pop-os/system-updater/blob/master/daemon/src/package_managers/nix.rs). It would probably need some modification to work on NixOS though. Other than that I don't think any graphical package managers are being maintained, although I've been meaning to dive in and make one once I finish the first release of my configuration editor
- Rust projects to learn from?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nixos-conf-editor and system-updater you can also consider the following projects:
nix-editor - A simple rust program to edit NixOS configuration files with just a command
launcher - Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service
Nixos-Gui - Gui for Nixos package manager
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
cosmic-settings - COSMIC Settings
Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!
tiler - Generic tiling window manager library in Rust
nix-software-center - A simple gtk4/libadwaita software center to easily install and manage nix packages
mini-redis - Incomplete Redis client and server implementation using Tokio - for learning purposes only
NixOS - My personal NixOS related stuff
rnix-parser - A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@oberblastmeister]
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system-updater vs Nixos-Gui
nixos-conf-editor vs nix-gui
system-updater vs cosmic-settings
nixos-conf-editor vs Relm4
system-updater vs tiler
nixos-conf-editor vs nix-software-center
system-updater vs mini-redis
nixos-conf-editor vs NixOS
system-updater vs rnix-parser