flake VS nixpkgs-overlay

Compare flake vs nixpkgs-overlay and see what are their differences.

flake

My computing life in Nix. (by tadfisher)

nixpkgs-overlay

My personal Nixpkgs overlay with some packages I use, automatically built and updated using GitHub Actions (by InternetUnexplorer)
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flake nixpkgs-overlay
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10 3
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6.3 9.4
4 months ago 6 days ago
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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.

flake

Posts with mentions or reviews of flake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.

nixpkgs-overlay

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixpkgs-overlay. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flake and nixpkgs-overlay you can also consider the following projects:

guix-nonfree - Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS

guix-nonfree

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

nonguix

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

nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that

adw-gtk3 - The theme from libadwaita ported to GTK-3

jfchmotfsdynfetch

jibyconf - Configuration scripts for deploying my dev workspace using Ansible playbooks and Stow