Top 4 Nix Declarative Projects

dotfiles

4 625 9.5 Nix

NixOS system config & Home-Manager user config (by fufexan)

Project mention: NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26

I’ve found it most helpful to review other people’s configurations to learn Nix.
Some specific ones I really like:
https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs
https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles
I keep a not comprehensive GitHub Stars list of Nix stuff I find here if you want more:
https://github.com/stars/heywoodlh/lists/nix
If you aren’t familiar, Nix-Darwin allows you to codify your MacOS deployments in a fashion comparable to NixOS. As a huge Nix-Darwin user myself, I have found malob’s repo extremely helpful for ideas with MacOS configuration. Nix-Darwin has made me so happy as a MacOS user. :)
Some other unsolicited tips:
1. Start with Nix flakes for configuration
2. Invest in Home-Manager before NixOS or Nix-Darwin
3. Ask people for help in Matrix or Discourse — my experience is that Nix-related folk are very welcoming and understanding
Good luck!

snowflake

1 74 9.9 Nix

NixOS Config(s) - Mirrored from https://git.flake.sh/notohh/snowflake (by notohh)
WorkOS

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nix-config

2 38 8.9 Nix

Nix configurations (by Kranzes)
JohnOS

1 5 7.4 Nix

Erasing my darlings since 2021

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