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NixOS

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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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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • NL flagNetherlands
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Self-Hosted  Linux operating system
NixOS screenshot 1
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4.7 / 5 Avg rating (6)
56likes
4comments
183alternatives
5news articles

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Properties

  1.  Configurable
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Rolling Release
  3.  Portable
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Unix-like
  6.  Linux-based

 Tags

  • Immutable
  • purely-functional
  • gnu-linux
  • reproducible
  • distros
  • unix

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    CypherJack added NixOS as alternative to GLF OS
    14 days ago
  • octodi and Stepan-Zhnets liked NixOS
    21 days ago
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    justarandom added NixOS as alternative to AnduinOS
    about 1 month ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added NixOS as alternative to EU OS
    2 months ago
  • OpenSourceSoftware added NixOS as alternative to ParticleOS
    2 months ago
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    POX added NixOS as alternative to Aurora OS
    3 months ago
  • bannert1337 and Evgeny9 liked NixOS
    3 months ago
  • App icon
    aliriza-keskin23 added NixOS as alternative to Turkman Linux
    3 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
CatAT
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Apr 13, 2024
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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

IamPyu
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Jun 25, 2024
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Rollbacks, Declarative Configuration, Development Environments, Home Manager, so much great things about this system, I find it impossible to switch away!

zHalfinity
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Jul 11, 2023
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NixOS feels like a reward for my experience as a software developer

Lunatica
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Nov 20, 2020
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you should use it instead of Arch Linux btw

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.

More social network pages for NixOS: Google+ (unofficial): https://plus.google.com/communities/113182864761473463138

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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about NixOS, and it has gotten 56 likes

NixOS was added to AlternativeTo by AntumDeluge on Aug 31, 2014 and this page was last updated Mar 15, 2024.