Comparison of NixOS setups: Difference between revisions

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This table provides a comparison of NixOS setups, may them be templates, user or domain-specific setups, and more. It can be useful to NixOS users who want to take inspiration and learn from existing configurations.

Definitions

Name: Name of the setup.
Domain: The application of the setup, including template, user configuration, or domain-specific configuration.
Flakes: Whether it implements Flakes or not.
Home Manager: Whether it makes use of Home Manager or not.
Secrets: A list of supported secret management schemes.
File system: A list of the main file systems used (e.g. BTRFS, ZFS, EXT4, etc).
System encryption: Whether it has encryption on a system level or not, and the software it uses for encryption (e.g. LUKS, ZFS native, etc).
Opt-in state: Whether it supports opt-in state or not.
Display server: A list of supported display servers (e.g. X, Wayland, etc)
Desktop environment: A list of supported desktop environments (e.g. i3, GNOME, KDE, LXQt, Sway, XFCE, Xmonad, etc).
Maintained: Whether its repository has commits in the last 10 months or not.
Repository: Link to the repository.

General information

Name	Domain	Flakes	Home Manager	Secrets	File system	System encryption	Opt-in state	Display server	Desktop environment / Window manager	Maintained	Repository
Digga	Library, framework	Yes	Yes	agenix	None	No	No	None	None	No	divnix/digga
DevOS	Template (Digga)	Yes	Yes	agenix	None	No	No	None	None	No	divnix/digga/examples/devos
hlissner/dotfiles	User configuration	Yes	Yes	agenix	ZFS	Yes (LUKS)	No	X	bspwm	Yes	hlissner/dotfiles
~hutzdog/dotfiles	User configuration	Yes	Yes	pass-secret-service	Btrfs	No	No	X	Awesome	Yes	~hutzdog/dotfiles
nixos-flake-example	Template	Yes	No	None	None	No	No	None	None	Yes	colemickens/nixos-flake-example
SoxinOS	Template	Yes	Yes	sops-nix	None	No	No	X	i3	Yes	SoxinOS/soxin
not-os	Domain-specific (embedded system)	No	No	None	None	No	No	None	None	Yes	cleverca22/not-os
NixOS-WSL	Template (WSL)	Yes	No	None	None	No	No	None	None	Yes	Trundle/NixOS-WSL
Simple NixOS Mailserver	Domain-specific (mail server)	Yes	No	None	None	No	No	None	None	Yes	simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver
Nix Portable	Domain-specific (portable Nix binary)	Yes	No	None	None	No	No	None	None	Yes	DavHau/nix-portable
rasendubi/dotfiles	User configuration	Yes	Yes	GPG, Yubikey	None	No	No	X	EXWM	Yes	rasendubi/dotfiles
RGBCube/NCC	User configuration	Yes	Yes	agenix	Btrfs, EXT4	No	No	Wayland	Hyprland	Yes	RGBCube/NCC
puffnfresh/nix-files	User configuration	No	Yes		ZFS	No	No	X, Wayland	XMona, Xfce, Sway	Yes	puffnfresh/nix-files
Shabka	User configuration	No	Yes		Btrfs	No	No	X	i3	No	kalbasit/shabka
MatthewCroughan/nixcfg	User configuration	Yes	Yes	None	ZFS	Yes (LUKS)	No	Wayland	Sway	Yes	MatthewCroughan/nixcfg
Icy-Thought/Snowflake	User configuration	Yes	Yes	agenix	EXT4	No	No	X	Xmonad, LeftWM, Gnome, KDE Plasma	Yes	Icy-Thought/Snowflake
NixOSEncryptedLiveCD	Domain-specific	No	No			Yes (LUKS)	Yes	X, Wayland	GNOME, KDE, Mate, LXQt, Enlightenment, Sway, Xfce, Lumina	No	adrianparvino/NixOSEncryptedLiveCD
tudurom/dotfiles	User configuration	Yes	Yes	agenix	Btrfs, ZFS	Yes (LUKS)	Yes	X, Wayland	Sway, Gnome	Yes	tudurom/dotfiles
balsoft/nixos-config	User configuration	Yes	Yes		EXT4	Yes (LUKS)	Yes	Wayland	Sway	Yes	balsoft/nixos-config
srid/nixos-config	User configuration	Yes	Yes		EXT4	No	No	X	Xmonad, Gnome, KDE Plasma	Yes	srid/nixos-config
mt-caret/nix-config	User configuration	No	Yes		Btrfs	No	Yes	X	Xmonad	No	mt-caret/nix-config
grahamc/nixos-config	User configuration	No	No		ZFS	Yes (LUKS)	No	X, Wayland	i3, Sway	No	grahamc/nixos-config
Ericson2314/nixos-configuration	User configuration	No	Yes		ZFS	Yes (LUKS)	No	X, Wayland	Sway, Xmonad	Yes	Ericson2314/nixos-configuration
vms.nix	Domain-specific (virtual machines)	No	No		EXT4	No	No	None	None	No	Nekroze/vms.nix
engmark/root	User configuration	No	No	None	None	No	No	X, Wayland	GNOME, KDE Plasma	Yes	engmark/root
kiara/cfg	User configuration	Yes	Yes	sops-nix	Btrfs	Yes (LUKS)	Yes	Wayland	Niri	Yes	kiara/cfg

External links

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 !Maintained
 !Repository
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 |None
-|Yes
+|[https://github.com/divnix/digga/issues/503 No]
 |[https://github.com/divnix/digga divnix/digga]
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 |None
-|Yes
+|[https://github.com/divnix/digga/issues/503 No]
 |[https://github.com/divnix/digga/tree/main/examples/devos divnix/digga/examples/devos]
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 |Yes
 |pass-secret-service
-|[[BTRFS]]
+|[[Btrfs]]
 |No
 |No
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 |Yes
 |[https://github.com/rasendubi/dotfiles rasendubi/dotfiles]
+|-
+|RGBCube/NCC
+|User configuration
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|agenix
+|[[Btrfs]], [[EXT4]]
+|No
+|No
+|Wayland
+|Hyprland
+|Yes
+|[https://github.com/RGBCube/NCC RGBCube/NCC]
 |-
 |puffnfresh/nix-files
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 |Yes
 |
-|[[BTRFS]]
+|[[Btrfs]]
 |No
 |No
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 |Yes
 |Yes
-|None
+|agenix
-|[[BTRFS]], [[ZFS]]
+|[[Btrfs]], [[ZFS]]
 |Yes (LUKS)
 |Yes
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 |mt-caret/nix-config
 |User configuration
-|Yes
+|No
 |Yes
 |
-|[[BTRFS]]
+|[[Btrfs]]
 |No
 |Yes
 |X
 |Xmonad
-|Yes
+|No
 |[https://github.com/mt-caret/nix-config mt-caret/nix-config]
 |-
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 |No
 |[https://github.com/Nekroze/vms.nix Nekroze/vms.nix]
+|-
+|engmark/root
+|User configuration
+|No
+|No
+|None
+|None
+|No
+|No
+|X, Wayland
+|GNOME, KDE Plasma
+|Yes
+|[https://gitlab.com/engmark/root engmark/root]
+|-
+|kiara/cfg
+|User configuration
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|sops-nix
+|[[Btrfs]]
+|Yes (LUKS)
+|Yes
+|Wayland
+|Niri
+|Yes
+|[https://codeberg.org/kiara/cfg kiara/cfg]
 |}
 == External links ==
 * [https://github.com/search?o=desc&p=1&q=nixos+language%3Anix&s=stars&type=Repositories GitHub search by most starred "nixos language:nix"]
+* [https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/topics/nixos?sort=stars_desc&visibility_level=20 Most starred public NixOS repos on GitLab]
+[[Category:Community]]