NixOS Wiki

Welcome to the unofficial user's wiki

This wiki is user-maintained. Take a look at the about page for more information.

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 Getting started

Take your first steps with Nix on nix.dev.

Newcomers are encouraged to read the Nix Ecosystem and Resources overview articles to get a comprehensive orientation. For more specific introductions, see:

• Nix Package Manager
• Nix Language
• Nixpkgs
• NixOS
• Hydra
• NixOps
• Applications - Extended Nix Ecosystem

 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:

• Nix manual
• Nixpkgs manual
• NixOS manual
• Hydra manual
• NixOps manual
• Home Manager manual

Major page categories:

• Software
• Hardware
• Desktop
• Server

See also:

• FAQ
• Nixpkgs vs other packagers
• Terms and Definitions in Nix Project
• Cheatsheet / Comparison between Ubuntu and NixOS

 Where’s the old wiki?

The old wiki can still be accessed on archive.org. Though badly outdated, it can still be helpful. Don’t hesitate to transfer still valid information into this wiki! We also have a write-up on the history of NixOS wikis.

 Special pages

• All pages of nixos.wiki
• All categories of nixos.wiki
• Recent changes of nixos.wiki

 Get in touch

• Community overview
• Get support
• Official Website
• GitHub repository
• Forums
  • Discourse
  • Stack Overflow
  • Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
  • /r/NixOS
• Chat
  • Matrix
  • Other ways to get in touch (IRC, Discord, Telegram, etc.)
  • #wiki:nixos.org on Matrix
• Email
  • admin-team@nixos.wiki for contacting nixos.wiki regarding any nixos.wiki operational topics or requests
• Events
• Workgroups (“Interest Groups”)
  • Workgroup:Container
  • Workgroup:Router
  • Workgroup:DataScience

 News

2023-09-09 — Upcoming Infrastructure Changes at nixos.wiki - September, 2023

Over the past few months, nixos.wiki has been dealing with increased levels of attacks ranging from basic to complex ones targeting the database. Thankfully, we have support from Cloudflare (sponsoring their services), which helps us counteract a large part of these attacks.

Despite this help, some attacks reach our backend, so we have decided to migrate to a different setup to better protect the wiki and keep it operational. This means there might be a few downtimes in the weeks ahead. We will keep you posted on the timings here in the news section.

2021-09-24 — Nix web highlights - September, 2021

We are halfway between releases right now. Porcupine for the holidays. Some highlights of Nix around the web this month:

• Statistics on the 100 most frequently set NixOS options
• Call for a 21.11 (Porcupine) release manager is open
• Using Home Manager with Flakes keeps getting more coverage
• Popular flake templating library, flake-utils-plus, sees v1.2.0 release

2019-06-02 — Google Index Issues

The visibility of nixos.wiki pages in Google search results drastically dropped around 21st of May. The reason is still unknown.

2017-10-08 — Integration issues resolved

Login links now work as they previously did. They are found both in the header and the footer.

Edit button now shows combined with actions and is available in the footer.

2017-10-02 — New Wiki theme activated

We activated the theme proposed by samueldr (issue #7)

Login links can be found in the footer

2017-06-28 — Login via GitHub has been enabled

We are still working out some kinks. If you encounter any errors please contact User:Fadenb

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