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Welcome to the NixOS Wiki

NixOS Website ⬩ Nix Ecosystem Documentation ⬩ Discourse ⬩ Matrix ⬩ GitHub ⬩ Community Calendar

The official NixOS Wiki is a growing collection of information, guides and tutorials about all things Nix. There are more than 300 articles to browse, read and contribute to.

Getting started

The official NixOS Wiki includes topics not covered in the NixOS Manual, such as NixOS user guides, configuration examples, troubleshooting tips, etc.

NixOS is a Linux operating system based on the Nix package manager and the Nixpkgs package repository.

Newcomers to NixOS are encouraged to read the Nix Core Ecosystem overview article to get a comprehensive orientation. For more specific introductions, see:

If you want to try Nix standalone in another Linux distribution or on a Mac, take your first steps on nix.dev.

Many great additional tools exist in the Nix ecosystem, such as:

Home Manager, a system for managing user profile & home directory contents
Nix Flakes, an experimental feature for managing dependencies of Nix projects

These add complexity and may be confusing at first, and you may even decide that you don't need them.

Start with plain Nix/NixOS, and only integrate Home Manager and/or Flakes into your setup once you're confident with Nix/NixOS and comprehend their significance.

Setting up NixOS

On desktop, with NixOS as a desktop
On ARM, with NixOS on ARM
In the cloud, with NixOS friendly hosters

Documentation topics

First stop should be Resources, which serves as a gateway to the most important documentation. Some highlights below.

Primary reference material:

Major page categories:

Software
Hardware
Desktop - how to setup PCs
Server - how to setup servers
Community - people, communication, work on NixOS

Get in touch

With the community

About the Wiki

Matrix chat for Wiki contributors #wiki:nixos.org
Email wiki@nixos.org for contacting wiki.nixos.org regarding any wiki operational topics or requests
Contribute to wiki and NixOS
Manual of Style

News

2025-05-23 — NixOS 25.05 released

Release Notes: https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/

2024-09-02 — Wiki editors use Manual of Style

The Wiki team discussed and put into effect the Manual of Style for editing wiki articles. This is a huge step towards clear and consistent documentation. All editors are encouraged to follow this guide.

2024-08-22 — Wiki editors meeting

All interested wiki editors meet on 22th of August at 21:15 CEST in a Jitsi conference.

Agenda: https://pad.lassul.us/wiki-agenda?view

2024-07-05 — Wiki editors meeting

All interested wiki editors meet on 5th of July at 13:00 CEST in a Jitsi conference.

2024-04-01 — Launch of the wiki

The official NixOS wiki has taken off! If you want to find out why there is a new wiki effort, check out the FAQ.

... all news articles →

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