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2	Mentions	4
312	Stars	69
-	Growth	-
5.2	Activity	7.8
8 months ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Nix	Language	Nix
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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nixos-configs

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-configs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

My First Impressions of Nix
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023
Is there any equivalent to a curated Fedora/Ubuntu? A NixOS-based distro or metarepo of configs perhaps?
4 projects | /r/NixOS | 7 May 2022

Xe: https://github.com/Xe/nixos-configs

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.

Best way to manage multiple home manager configs for both NixOS and non-NixOS systems using flakes?
8 projects | /r/NixOS | 2 Oct 2022

I do what you describe in a very simple way. It's not really made for multiuser configurations as i mix home-manager config of services and packages with nixos, something i will review one day. It's a flake for macos/linux/nixos but there are certainly other more fancy repositories out there. https://github.com/sebastiant/dotfiles
Flakes, nixos and home-configuration help
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 7 May 2022

My dotfiles does almost what you describe. I don't configure mulitple users but it should be pretty clear on how to do that. Hope they are of any help! https://github.com/sebastiant/dotfiles
What's the proper way to set up nix / home manager w/ flakes, directory wise?
3 projects | /r/NixOS | 20 Nov 2021

For reference here's yet another flake example. It's very basic compared to already posted flakes https://github.com/sebastiant/dotfiles
Flake structure for multi system
7 projects | /r/NixOS | 8 Nov 2021

Mine sets up a nixos host, a linux host and a macos host with nix-darwin, all with home manager: https://github.com/sebastiant/dotfiles/blob/master/flake.nix

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nixos-configs and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS

nixos-configs - My NixOS and nix-darwin configs

dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

dotfiles - My NixOS dotfiles for desktops and servers

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.

home-manager - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager]

nixos-config - My Personal Nix/NixOS Configuration.

nixos-config - Mirror of https://code.balsoft.ru/balsoft/nixos-config

nix-starter-configs - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!

nixcfg - Personal Nix/NixOS configuration files

dotfiles - :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS