watchlog VS Home Manager using Nix

Compare watchlog vs Home Manager using Nix and see what are their differences.

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watchlog Home Manager using Nix
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- 7 days ago
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watchlog

Posts with mentions or reviews of watchlog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-12.
  • Use the 'Tail' Command to Monitor Everything
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2021
    I found myself doing this as well and decided to write a simple tool to do it "automatically" for me.

    You still can't use it with less, but at least it allows you to mark "segments" of the log without switching to that window and mashing enter.

    https://gitlab.com/kevincox/watchlog

  • NixOS 21.05 Released
    39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021
    In general it is very nice. A common method is you create a `default.nix` file in the project you are working on and use tools that manage the deps for you. For example:

    Rust+Cargo: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/watchlog/-/blob/22c877065f763b3d...

    Node+NPM: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/kevincox-web-compiler/-/blob/9fa...

    My only Ruby project is private but I just rolled my own with:

    export "GEM_HOME=$out"

  • Show HN: A CLI tool for understanding the time of a log message
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2021

Home Manager using Nix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Home Manager using Nix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.
  • Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024
    It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.

    [0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/

  • How do I actually update home-manager?
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023
    $ home-manager --version 23.05 $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz home-manager $ nix-channel --update $ nix-shell '' -A install [...] All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit /home/MY-USERNAME/.config/home-manager/home.nix to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to see all available options. $ home-manager --version 23.05
  • Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023
    Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
  • Exclude packages in home manager
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 5 Dec 2023
  • An Overview of Nix in Practice
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    > Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs

    It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.

    Per the Nix manual[0]:

    > Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.

    e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:

      nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager
  • Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
    It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].

    1. https://nixos.org/

    2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

  • Noob question: Where home-manager config after installed on archlinux
    1 project | /r/Nix | 11 Sep 2023
    nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager nix-channel --update nix-shell '' -A install
  • Need help on home manager neovim config
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 11 Sep 2023
    I'm using flakes and home manager and not really sure how to go about managing my neovim configuration. I've read through some other posts, github issues, and various articles trying to suss out a good way to do this. Reading through other people's configs and posts was somewhat helpful but there is a lot going on I don't understand and everyone's examples I've seen vary wildly.
  • Recurring 'Home Manager not found' Error After Running nix-collect-garbage"
    1 project | /r/Nix | 11 Aug 2023
    Said store path contains the home-manager repo. After the home-manager run, the store path is recreated.
  • I want to like NixOS but... I can't and I need some help
    3 projects | /r/NixOS | 12 Jul 2023
    I can't answer all your questions, but home-manager does have a dconf module that would probably be better to use than that external tool. Everything inside the options block are the things you can pass to the dconf module.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing watchlog and Home Manager using Nix you can also consider the following projects:

poetry2nix - Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

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lnav-formats - Extra log file format descriptions for the lnav log file reader

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

cw - The best way to tail AWS CloudWatch Logs from your terminal

nixos-flake-example - This is a demo NixOS config, with optional flakes support. Along with notes on why flakes is useful and worth adopting.

config

NixOS-WSL - NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]

nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS

emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]

nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.