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Top 23 Nix Nix Projects
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Project mention: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-07
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Project mention: Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-23
To have your Nix-based setup reproducible across different OS (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, WSL2, MacOS, and NixOS), and have an extensible base config that can be customized to different situations, the go-to framework is home-manager (not NixOS, which only works on NixOS, or NixOS on WSL 2).
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
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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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Project mention: NixOS vs Traditional Linux: Why I Made the Switch and What I Learned | dev.to | 2026-04-09
nix.dev – practical guide for using Nix in real projects
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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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disko
Declarative disk partitioning and formatting using nix [maintainers=@Lassulus @Enzime @iFreilicht @Mic92 @phaer]
Project mention: Servidor de Factorio 100% declarativo com NixOS e Terraform no Magalu Cloud | dev.to | 2025-09-03 -
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nix-config
❄️ My nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS). (by ryan4yin)
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impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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Project mention: System Manager – Manage system config using Nix on any distro | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-19
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crane
A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.
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Project mention: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-27
There are two kinds of organization happening here that you might not see:
1. All .nix files (besides flake.nix) are flake-parts modules: https://flake.parts/
2. It's not only usable with experimental flakes. Works fine with unflake or trix.
The experimental part of flakes is enabling flake support in the `nix` CLI.
Flakes are also a design pattern in pure Nix syntax that can be evaluated fine without the experimental flag.
If you're curious about this meaningful organization, it's pretty well-documented:
https://denful.dev/
As for the experimental nature of flakes, it's more of a social experiment by now:
https://simonshine.dk/articles/if-flakes-are-experimental-wh...
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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 Nix projects in Nix? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | nixpkgs | 25,000 |
| 2 | Home Manager using Nix | 9,890 |
| 3 | nix-darwin | 5,514 |
| 4 | nix.dev | 3,799 |
| 5 | nix-starter-configs | 3,707 |
| 6 | nixos-config | 3,526 |
| 7 | disko | 3,110 |
| 8 | NixOS-WSL | 2,953 |
| 9 | nixvim | 2,827 |
| 10 | microvm.nix | 2,624 |
| 11 | dev-templates | 2,296 |
| 12 | nix-on-droid | 2,053 |
| 13 | nix-config | 1,938 |
| 14 | impermanence | 1,809 |
| 15 | flake-utils | 1,594 |
| 16 | system-manager | 1,573 |
| 17 | devshell | 1,528 |
| 18 | nvf | 1,521 |
| 19 | rust-overlay | 1,487 |
| 20 | crane | 1,383 |
| 21 | flake-parts | 1,375 |
| 22 | alejandra | 1,353 |
| 23 | nix-portable | 1,340 |
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