What is the difference between NixOS and any other distro running the nix package manager?

• system-manager

  7 522 8.9 Rust

  Manage system config using nix on any distro

  

actually there is system-manager for managing a lot of system-level config including systemd stuff

• nixos-infect

  20 1,147 7.1 Shell

  [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)

You can execute nixos-rebuild on other distros but the NixOS modules and activation scripts expect it to run on NixOS system so it probably will not work (e.g. NixOS would want to control systemd, which would conflict with the distro). And if it did, you would no longer have the other distro but NixOS (see also nixos-infect).

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Home Manager using Nix

  182 5,863 9.8 Nix

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

  

home-manager allows managing user profile on other Linux distros

• nix-darwin

  39 2,235 8.9 Nix

  nix modules for darwin

nix-darwin does similar thing for MacOS

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