Comparison of NixOS setups
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.
- Template
- Whether it is designed as a template for using as base of NixOS systems or not.
- Flakes
- Whether it implements Flakes or not.
- Home Manager
- Whether it makes use of Home Manager or not.
- [TODO] Secretes
- Whether it makes use of secret management schemes or not, and if yes, then a list of the used 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.
- [TODO] Display server
- A list of supported display servers (e.g. X, Wayland, etc)
- [TODO] 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 | Template | Flakes | Home Manager | File system | System encryption | Graphical | Opt-in state | Maintained | Repository |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DevOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | No | ? | No | Yes | divnix/devos |
| hlissner/dotfiles | No | Yes | Yes | ZFS | Yes (LUKS) | ? | No | Yes | hlissner/dotfiles |
| nixos-flake-example | Yes | Yes | No | None | No | ? | No | Yes | colemickens/nixos-flake-example |
| SoxinOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | No | ? | No | Yes | SoxinOS/soxin |
| not-os | No | No | No | None | No | ? | No | Yes | cleverca22/not-os |
| NixOS-WSL | Yes | Yes | No | None | No | ? | No | Yes | Trundle/NixOS-WSL |
| Simple NixOS Mailserver | No | Yes | No | None | No | ? | No | Yes | simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver |
| Nix Portable | No | Yes | No | None | No | ? | No | Yes | DavHau/nix-portable |
| rasendubi/dotfiles | No | Yes | Yes | None | No | ? | No | Yes | rasendubi/dotfiles |
| puffnfresh/nix-files | No | No | Yes | ZFS | No | ? | No | Yes | puffnfresh/nix-files |
| Shabka | No | No | Yes | BTRFS | No | ? | No | No | kalbasit/shabka |
| MatthewCroughan/nixcfg | No | Yes | Yes | ZFS | Yes (LUKS) | ? | No | Yes | MatthewCroughan/nixcfg |
| Icy-Thought/Snowflake | No | Yes | Yes | EXT4 | No | ? | No | Yes | Icy-Thought/Snowflake |
| NixOSEncryptedLiveCD | No | No | No | Yes (LUKS) | ? | Yes | No | adrianparvino/NixOSEncryptedLiveCD | |
| tudurom/dotfiles | No | Yes | Yes | BTRFS, ZFS | Yes (LUKS) | ? | Yes | Yes | tudurom/dotfiles |
| balsoft/nixos-config | No | Yes | Yes | EXT4 | Yes (LUKS) | ? | Yes | Yes | balsoft/nixos-config |
| srid/nixos-config | No | Yes | Yes | EXT4 | No | ? | No | Yes | srid/nixos-config |
| mt-caret/nix-config | No | Yes | Yes | BTRFS | No | ? | Yes | Yes | mt-caret/nix-config |
| grahamc/nixos-config | No | No | No | ZFS | Yes (LUKS) | ? | No | No | grahamc/nixos-config |
| Ericson2314/nixos-configuration | No | No | Yes | ZFS | Yes (LUKS) | X11 or Wayland | No | Yes | Ericson2314/nixos-configuration |