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NixOS-WSL Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to NixOS-WSL
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WorkOS
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.
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impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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nix-direnv
A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
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InfluxDB
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.
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home-manager
Discontinued Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager] (by rycee)
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NixOS-WSL reviews and mentions
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NixOS for the Impatient
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.
- NixOS VM on windows machine
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Easy and reproducible WSL distributions, with home-manager and Alpine linux
This project began as I didn't like that NixOS-WSL used systemd in the background, so I made this for myself. Some of the advantages: faster boot time, smaller image size and a FHS distro in the background, that lets you load dynamically linked binaries (for example, to have VSCode remote working OOTB).
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About using Nix in my development workflow
There's a community port of NixOS to WSL2, complete with systemd support, plus Docker Desktop support and some other goodies: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
Nix also works on other WSL distros, provided they're using WSL2.
Nix supports cross-compiling Windows binaries as well. I know some people use it for that.
There is no 'native' support— you can't use Nix as an alternative to Winget or Chocolatey on Windows. Right now a lot of important stuff in Nixpkgs depends on a POSIX shell and Unix coreutils implementation for the basic build environment, and that's shared between many operating systems. Trying to fit Windows into that doesn't really make s sense, and there's not really any momentum behind the idea of using any particular other runtime environment (could be a scripting language instead of a shell + coreutils) for those basic builders.
But it's conceivable that some day, one or more companies using Nix on WSL might see vaiue in taking that extra step and put together a Nix-based package collection for Windows and help get the Nix Windows port out the door.
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Build a temporary package to get started, iron out deps and learn how things work...
Basically, I managed to get NixOS inside WSL2 by using this: https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL
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does nixos-wsl work in vscode with the wsl extension:
But whenever I try running code . with nixos-wsl(https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL), the error: `code: command not found` is thrown, also, whenever I try to open nixos-wsl from vscode, it does not work and the terminal throws a bunch of errors?
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Basic NixOS-WSL repo stats
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nix-community/NixOS-WSL is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of NixOS-WSL is Nix.
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