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Top 23 Nix Dotfile Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-02
Now with LLMs it's even easier. Writing nix code is hard, but reading it is straightforward, so you can easily review what an LLM produces. Adn it's not much code either, a simple home manager setup is maybe 100 lines total.
1. Install nix / determinate nix
2. Tell your favorite llm to set up https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin with home manager if you are on mac, or just home manager if you are on linux
3. Review the code and ask for clarifications
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nix-starter-configs
Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need!
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nixos-config
General purpose Nix starter template for macOS or NixOS w/ step-by-step instructions (by dustinlyons)
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nix-config
❄️ My nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS). (by ryan4yin)
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Here's a port to NixOS which I haven't had the time to try out yet but will try to soon: https://github.com/henrysipp/omarchy-nix
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nix-wrapper-modules
Library for using modules to wrap packages with configuration directly, and a collection of pre-built wrapper modules!
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nixcfg
My nix configuration(s), using flakes. It's my laptop, it's my servers, it's my everything, in code. (by MatthewCroughan)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Dotfile projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Manager using Nix | 9,934 |
| 2 | nix-darwin | 5,514 |
| 3 | nix-starter-configs | 3,707 |
| 4 | nixos-config | 3,533 |
| 5 | dotfiles | 3,075 |
| 6 | nix-config | 1,938 |
| 7 | nix-config | 1,305 |
| 8 | dotfiles | 1,109 |
| 9 | nix-config | 1,086 |
| 10 | dotfiles | 1,077 |
| 11 | digga | 1,026 |
| 12 | crystal | 865 |
| 13 | nix-config | 741 |
| 14 | omarchy-nix | 718 |
| 15 | system | 525 |
| 16 | nix-homelab | 497 |
| 17 | yuki | 483 |
| 18 | nixcfg | 476 |
| 19 | nix-wrapper-modules | 358 |
| 20 | nixdots | 346 |
| 21 | nixcfg | 330 |
| 22 | nix-config | 281 |
| 23 | .dots | 279 |
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