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Top 23 home-manager Open-Source 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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InfluxDB
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nixos-config
Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨ (by dustinlyons)
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impermanence
Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
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NixOS-Guide
NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language.
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WorkOS
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dconf2nix
:feet: Convert dconf files (e.g. GNOME Shell) to Nix, as expected by Home Manager [maintainer=@jtojnar]
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horus-nix-home
This is my laptop nixos user environment provided by https://github.com/rycee/home-manager. It includes full i3, polybar and personnal apps configuration, all in nix.
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spicetify-nix
A nix flake for configuring spicetify. Includes packaging for many popular themes and extensions.
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dotfiles
❄️ My dotfiles for NixOS and macOS as a Nix flake. Neovim, Fish shell, Wezterm, etc. (by mrjones2014)
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neovim-flake
A highly modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOS. (by NotAShelf)
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Is this an example of what you mean (home-manager is defined as part of the flake): https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs/blob/main/minimal/flake.nix
Project mention: Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-15I’ve been using Nix directly on MacOS with minimal issues for a few years now. Works great.
I hate using docker on Mac and have since replaced it with flakes and devenv.
My configuration with a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
Project mention: Ask HN: How to Manage Phones and PCs for Elderly Parents? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23You might want to set up NixOS with impermanence, with something like https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence. Install an easy to use desktop environment like ElementaryOS, and configure NixOS with or without Flatpak, if you want to give the user the ability to install new software or not. Then set up automatic updates, automatic garbage collection and you have a truly stable system.
Project mention: NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26I’ve found it most helpful to review other people’s configurations to learn Nix.
Some specific ones I really like:
https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs
https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles
I keep a not comprehensive GitHub Stars list of Nix stuff I find here if you want more:
https://github.com/stars/heywoodlh/lists/nix
If you aren’t familiar, Nix-Darwin allows you to codify your MacOS deployments in a fashion comparable to NixOS. As a huge Nix-Darwin user myself, I have found malob’s repo extremely helpful for ideas with MacOS configuration. Nix-Darwin has made me so happy as a MacOS user. :)
Some other unsolicited tips:
1. Start with Nix flakes for configuration
2. Invest in Home-Manager before NixOS or Nix-Darwin
3. Ask people for help in Matrix or Discourse — my experience is that Nix-related folk are very welcoming and understanding
Good luck!
Not super recent, but nix-snapshotter is one that I'd call awesome(but I'm also a k8s fanboi): https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37407758
Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
Project mention: NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26I’ve found it most helpful to review other people’s configurations to learn Nix.
Some specific ones I really like:
https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs
https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles
I keep a not comprehensive GitHub Stars list of Nix stuff I find here if you want more:
https://github.com/stars/heywoodlh/lists/nix
If you aren’t familiar, Nix-Darwin allows you to codify your MacOS deployments in a fashion comparable to NixOS. As a huge Nix-Darwin user myself, I have found malob’s repo extremely helpful for ideas with MacOS configuration. Nix-Darwin has made me so happy as a MacOS user. :)
Some other unsolicited tips:
1. Start with Nix flakes for configuration
2. Invest in Home-Manager before NixOS or Nix-Darwin
3. Ask people for help in Matrix or Discourse — my experience is that Nix-related folk are very welcoming and understanding
Good luck!
On that page, they also have a link to a tool to allow you to convert existing dconf databases to nix expressions.
Project mention: Getting `base16-shell` to work on my system and adding it to nixpkgs (first contribution). | /r/NixOS | 2023-04-30
Project mention: Dumb Question: How do I get a custom made ricing downloaded from the internet to work after "home-manager switch"? | /r/NixOS | 2023-11-03I've found this config which only uses home-manager and seems to deliver just what I need without much trouble. I already activated flakes and nix-command, initialized home-manager, cloned the repo and did "home-manager switch" upon it, which prompted a installation, everything seemed fine...but after either just restarting my laptop or rebuilding nixos and restarting my system remains the same (with KDE Plasma, nothing changed).
Im a newish NixOS user, Ive used it like 20 times before but always quit because I couldnt debug errors, trying not to give up for the 20th time this time lmao; so Ive been trying to learn how to use overlays & flakes for a couple of days now. The ones I want to use/enable are: - Emacs-Overlay - Spicetify-Nix
How do you manage your config? Personally, I’m using https://github.com/notashelf/neovim-flake
Sorry, didn't see this comment. It is here: https://github.com/thiagokokada/nix-configs
In the `actions` directory is all the Nix files. There is some glue code in `lib/flakes` to generate the YAML files from Nix.
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).
home-manager related posts
- Ask HN: How to Manage Phones and PCs for Elderly Parents?
- Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix
- NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
- Nix Home Manager Option Search
- 2024-01-01 Emacs News
- Home-manager as NixOS module or as standalone?
- Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source home-manager projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | chezmoi | 11,689 |
| 2 | nix-starter-configs | 1,893 |
| 3 | nixos-config | 1,018 |
| 4 | impermanence | 900 |
| 5 | nix-config | 739 |
| 6 | dotfiles | 625 |
| 7 | NixOS-Guide | 617 |
| 8 | nixos-config | 535 |
| 9 | nix-snapshotter | 471 |
| 10 | plasma-manager | 434 |
| 11 | system | 406 |
| 12 | nixpkgs | 374 |
| 13 | dconf2nix | 201 |
| 14 | base16.nix | 153 |
| 15 | nyx | 135 |
| 16 | homeage | 129 |
| 17 | horus-nix-home | 125 |
| 18 | spicetify-nix | 104 |
| 19 | dotfiles | 92 |
| 20 | neovim-flake | 92 |
| 21 | nix-configs | 90 |
| 22 | macOS-dotfiles | 88 |
| 23 | nix-rice | 87 |
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