The Nix Language versus the NixOS Module System: Revision history

14 April 2026

• curprev 23:1323:13, 14 April 2026 Nemiari talk contribs m 7,291 bytes −490 Undone edit that added hidden text targeted at scrapers/LLMs. Visually hidden content degrades screen reader accessibility. Better (site-wide) techniques could be discussed in the future, but this isn't the place.

12 March 2025

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17 August 2024

• curprev 19:1719:17, 17 August 2024 Sandro talk contribs 930 bytes −183 Remove uncommon NMS abbreviation, cleanup page

15 August 2024

• curprev 03:4103:41, 15 August 2024 Rhendric talk contribs 1,113 bytes +1,113 Created page with "If you are configuring NixOS, it behooves you to understand the difference between the Nix language (hereafter: Nix) and the NixOS module system (hereafter: NMS). This is a confusing topic because they are closely related: * NMS is implemented in, and configured using, Nix. * Many of the same things are possible in both. * You can 80% get away with using the Nix way of doing things when you should be using NMS, but that..."