nixos-manager vs nix-mate

nixos-manager

Manage your NixOS packages and configuration via a simple, intuitive UI (by pmiddend)

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nix-mate

Installing stuff with Nix made easy (by danieljharvey)

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nixos-manager		nix-mate
	Project
2	Mentions	1
172	Stars	7
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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.

Best UI Toolkit for generating UI elements at runtime
8 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Jan 2021

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.
Why isn't NixOS more popular
3 projects | /r/NixOS | 3 Jan 2021

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.

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.

Nix Mate: Installing stuff with Nix made easy
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nixos-manager and nix-mate you can also consider the following projects:

cachix - Command line client for Nix binary cache hosting:

nixfmt - The official (but not yet stable) formatter for Nix code

threepenny-gui - GUI framework that uses the web browser as a display.

gi-atk - Generate Haskell bindings for GObject-Introspection capable libraries

nix-deploy - Deploy software or an entire NixOS system configuration to another NixOS system

hercules-ci-agent - https://hercules-ci.com build and deployment agent

ihp - 🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

jupyenv - Declarative and reproducible Jupyter environments - powered by Nix

hocker - Utilities for interacting with the docker registry and generating nix build instructions

shine - Super fast fixed-point MP3 encoder with JS/wasm and android native bindings.

cabal2nix - Generate Nix build instructions from a Cabal file