dotfiles VS nixos-offline-installer

Compare dotfiles vs nixos-offline-installer and see what are their differences.

nixos-offline-installer

Create USB sticks that perform a full offline installation of any NixOS configuration. (by tfc)
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dotfiles nixos-offline-installer
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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 2023-05-31.
  • Combined Manager: New structure for personal NixOS configs
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 31 May 2023
  • Using NixOS on corporate laptops.
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 5 Jan 2023
    btw this might be helpful to you: https://github.com/pca006132/dotfiles/blob/master/modules/defaults.nix
  • offline installer with flake?
    4 projects | /r/NixOS | 10 Dec 2022
    I tried building an offline installer with https://github.com/tfc/nixos-offline-installer and managed to make it work by some tiny modification. However, when I tried switching over to flake, it seems that flake evaluation requires network for its input and will exit with error when I disable the network. I only managed to copy every dependencies (perhaps related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4250) and hardcode the hardware configurations which is not nice. I wonder if anyone else tried this and have any suggestion. My current prototype is this: https://github.com/pca006132/dotfiles/blob/master/installer-configuration.nix

nixos-offline-installer

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-offline-installer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.
  • offline installer with flake?
    4 projects | /r/NixOS | 10 Dec 2022
    I tried building an offline installer with https://github.com/tfc/nixos-offline-installer and managed to make it work by some tiny modification. However, when I tried switching over to flake, it seems that flake evaluation requires network for its input and will exit with error when I disable the network. I only managed to copy every dependencies (perhaps related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4250) and hardcode the hardware configurations which is not nice. I wonder if anyone else tried this and have any suggestion. My current prototype is this: https://github.com/pca006132/dotfiles/blob/master/installer-configuration.nix

What are some alternatives?

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

combined-manager - NixOS personal configuration structure library

torspray - A console utility to bring up new Tor nodes easily

nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

nixos-config

nixos-installer-gen