NixOS
NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In existing distributions, actions such as upgrades are dangerous: upgrading a package can cause other packages to break, upgrading an entire system is much less...
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Features
Properties
- Configurable
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Ad-free
- Rolling Release
- Portable
- No Tracking
- Unix-like
- Linux-based
Tags
- Immutable
- unix
- reproducible
- distros
- gnu-linux
- purely-functional
NixOS News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about NixOS
NixOS 25.11 “Xantusia” released with 7k new packages, GNOME 49, COSMIC beta, and moreNixOS 25.11 “Xantusia” has been released as the latest version of this Linux distribution built aro...
- Fla published news article about NixOS
NixOS 25.05 arrives with new and updated packages and updated GNOME 48 and Linux kernelNixOS 25.05 'Warbler' has been released, delivering 7,840 new packages and updating 28,054 more, wh...
- POX published news article about NixOS
NixOS 24.11 “Vicuña” released with Linux kernel 6.6 LTS, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2 and moreNixOS has unveiled its latest version, 24.11, code-named Vicuña, featuring numerous enhancements, b...
Recent activities
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What is NixOS?
NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In existing distributions, actions such as upgrades are dangerous: upgrading a package can cause other packages to break, upgrading an entire system is much less reliable than reinstalling from scratch, you can’t safely test what the results of a configuration change will be, you cannot easily undo changes to the system, and so on. We want to change that.
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Comments and Reviews
you should use it instead of Arch Linux btw
Rollbacks, Declarative Configuration, Development Environments, Home Manager, so much great things about this system, I find it impossible to switch away!
If you’re like me and want a declarative file-based setup for your computer, NixOS is perfect. It can be rough to get started, and running things outside of the Nix ecosystem can be a pain. But what’s there and works, works incredibly
NixOS feels like a reward for my experience as a software developer