A system you can put back together.

Make a change you can explain.

{ pkgs, ... }: {
  programs.firefox.enable = true;
  programs.git.enable = true;
}

Start with the computer you have in mind.

1. Desktop

   Your everyday machine

   A laptop or desktop with familiar applications and a configuration you keep improving.

   NixOS on the desktop
2. Server

   A machine that runs services

   A homelab, a small server or a handful of hosts. Share the common parts; keep the differences explicit.

   NixOS for servers
3. Device

   A device with one job

   Build a VM or installation image around the software it needs. Check the hardware before buying a board.

   Devices and images

What people are reading.

Questions, announcements and long design threads from the official NixOS forum. Top topics this week.

Names you will run into.

A few of the projects that come up in almost every NixOS thread. The tools page groups two dozen of them by job and says who maintains each.

• Home ManagerManages dotfiles, user packages and per-program settings with the same module system NixOS uses.
• diskoDeclares partitions, filesystems, LUKS and RAID layouts in Nix and can apply them during installation.
• sops-nixDecrypts secrets managed with sops (age, GPG or cloud KMS) during activation, so the encrypted files can live in your configuration repository.
• devenvProject environments in a devenv.nix file: languages, services such as PostgreSQL, and long-running processes, built on Nix.
• nixos-anywhereInstalls NixOS over SSH onto a machine running another Linux, using kexec and disko to partition the disks.
• nixdA language server that evaluates Nix code to offer completion and option documentation, including NixOS and Home Manager options.