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This article is an overview of resources available both within the NixOS community Wiki and elsewhere. For communication channels, support and information of contributing, see the community menu.

Wiki

The NixOS Wiki's core articles are divided into five categories. Each category link will list all pages in that category:

Pedias, for encyclopedic description
Guides, for broad hands-on understanding and connections to other learning resources
Tutorials, intended to teach a particular process or project
Cookbooks, collections of tips and tricks
Reference, material for the nitty gritty details

Pages are also organized by the six most prominent components of the Nix Ecosystem — NixOS, Nix: the package manager, Nix: the language (Nix Expressions), Nixpkgs, NixOps and Hydra.

NixOS Wiki Resources
Category	NixOS	Nix	Nix Expressions	Nixpkgs	NixOps	Hydra
Pedia	NixOS	Nix	Nix Expression Language	Nixpkgs	NixOps	Hydra
Cookbook	NixOS Cookbook	Nix Cookbook	Nix Expressions Cookbook	Nixpkgs Cookbook	NixOps Cookbook	Hydra Cookbook

NixOS Official Resources
Category	NixOS	Nix	Nix Expressions	Nixpkgs	NixOps	Hydra
Reference	NixOS Manual	Nix Manual	Nix Manual: Writing Nix Expressions	Nixpkgs Manual	Nixops Manual	Hydra Manual

Note: Home Manager is also a major community project to make user environment management in NixOS easier. It is intended to replace much of what you would do with nix-env, to reduce hard-to-track imperative actions.
Official Home Manager manual

Also, see Applications for an overview of tools in the extended ecosystem.

News

planet.nixos.org - Aggregator for blogs related to nix/nixOS
NixOS Weekly - A semi-regular Nix email newsletter. Averages about once every three weeks, actually.
NixOS Discourse

Interactive websites

NixOS Packages Search - full-text search through all packages of NixOS
NixOS Option Search - full-text search through all options of NixOS
NixOS Code Search - full-text search through NixOS related packages
A tour of nix - interactive Nix tutorial
Nix Channel Status - when nixpkgs/nixos channels were updated last
Hydra

Tutorials

Wil T Nix Guides - A video series in 8 parts, covering the Nix ecosystem from foundations, providing orientation with all available resources, and showing hands on how to get NixOS installed and running (including managing all your configuration through git and using Flakes).
Tutorial Introduction to Nix - an introduction focused on the use of shell environments, for Python and with links to R versions as well
Interactive Tour of Nix - an interactive tutorial of the Nix Expression Language by Joachim Schiele and Paul Seitz
Nix shell workshop
Scrive workshop - nix language and packaging workshop

Talks

NixCon 2020 Talks
NixCon 2019 Talks
NixCon 2018 Talks
NixCon 2017 Talks
NixCon 2015 Talks produced and hosted by the CCC Video Operation Center

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 === More documentation ===
-* [https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html Nix Pills] - Originally, a series of blog post about Nix/Nixpkgs internals from ~2015. Major revisions since, and now maintained as an official resource. Aims to be a less formal introduction to using Nix and building packages than the manuals.
+* [https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html Nix Pills] - Originally, a series of blog posts about Nix/Nixpkgs internals from ~2015. Major revisions since, and now maintained as an official resource. Aims to be a less formal introduction to using Nix and building packages than the manuals.
 * [https://nix.dev/ nix.dev] - A Github-managed, community-built Nix developer's reference; organized by Domen Kožar