NixOS for the Impatient

• ublue

  98 135 0.7 Shell

  A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.

If this setup could be combined with an easy way to customize things, like ublue (https://ublue.it/) lets you customzie fedora silverblue using Dockerfile configs, I'd adopt it in a heartbeat.

• impermanence

  34 900 5.9 Nix

  Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]

  

[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• colmena

  7 967 7.1 Rust

  A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool

- rpi nas

I also wipe my entire rootfs every boot with a zfs snapshot rollback[2] using the impermanence module[3] to keep specific stateful data one one of two datasets with regular snapshots: one is backed up with zfs send, the other is just for cache between reboots.

It took a little puzzling to get started, because I didn’t know about the impermanence module, so I built my own hacky solution. But I really love this setup. And the way I don’t have cruft to clean.

Also my backups are so much smaller now :’-)

[1]: https://colmena.cli.rs/

• NixOS-WSL

  6 1,418 8.9 Nix

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

  

I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.

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