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.
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.
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 2023-06-19.
- My First Impressions of Nix
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NixOS Questions
Gtk configuration Since you're on Cinnamon, configuring gtk seems like something you'll want to do.
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Flake structure for multi system
People have upvoted me, so I guess I better deliver now. My flake includes multiple hosts and multiple independent home-manager configurations. For the machines that are actual nixos machines, I set them up with
nixfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixfiles.
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
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How can I calculate the "age of money" with (h)ledger?
If you're familiar with Python, I have a script which does that (along with a few other metrics): https://github.com/barrucadu/nixfiles/blob/1c99414156a7081ade210a9f43a3941b44a4ef0b/hosts/nyarlathotep/jobs/hledger-export-to-promscale.py
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Issues getting docker containers with databases set up
I run a lot of services through docker containers, here's how I structure things: https://github.com/barrucadu/nixfiles/blob/master/services/concourse.nix
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Who's here runs NixOS with opt in state?
I do. I have a fairly small chunk of configuration to stick all persistent state I care about in a different ZFS dataset (mounted to /persist) and do the rollback.
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Do you all just git init inside your /etc/nixos directory?
It's what I do.
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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems (erasing root on every boot)
You can see the relevant bit of my config on github.
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How do you manage your private keys?
My solution - which is not great, mind you - is to have my NixOS config defined across two git repos: one is public, the other is private and has all the secrets.
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Erasing root on every boot
All my nixos config is on github.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and nixfiles you can also consider the following projects:
infra - NixOS configurations for nixos.org and its servers
sops-nix - Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
nixos-configs - My NixOS and nix-darwin configs
NixOS-Guide - NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.
infra
agenix - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
termina - wandering aimlessly throughout a vast wilderness of calamitous intent
.dots - just my .dotfiles
dotfiles - My NixOS dotfiles for desktops and servers
digga - A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
dotfiles
impermanence - Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]