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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other; as a result there are no /bin, /sbin, /lib or /usr directories and all packages are kept in /nix/store instead. Other innovative features of NixOS include reliable upgrades, rollbacks, reproducible system configurations, source-based model with binaries, and multi-user package management. Although NixOS started as a research project, it is now a functional and usable operating system that includes hardware detection, KDE as the default desktop, and systemd for managing system services.

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NixOS Summary
Distribution NixOS
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 • 2024-06-06: Distribution Release: NixOS 24.05
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 • 2022-12-01: Distribution Release: NixOS 22.11
 • 2022-05-30: Distribution Release: NixOS 22.05
 • 2021-12-01: Distribution Release: NixOS 21.11
 • 2021-06-02: Distribution Release: NixOS 21.05
 • 2020-10-27: Distribution Release: NixOS 20.09
 • 2020-04-21: Distribution Release: NixOS 20.03
 • 2019-10-09: Distribution Release: NixOS 19.09
 • 2019-04-11: Distribution Release: NixOS 19.03
 • 2018-10-06: Distribution Release: NixOS 18.09
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Full Package List:   NixOS 20.03
  Number of packages: 785 (download as TXT)
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  •  aalib-1.4rc5
  •  acl-2.2.53
  •  adwaita-icon-theme-3.34.3
  •  alsa-lib-1.1.9
  •  alsa-firmware-1.2.1
  •  alsa-plugins-1.2.1
  •  alsa-utils-1.2.1
  •  appstream-glib-0.7.16
  •  atk-2.34.1
  •  atkmm-2.28.0
  •  at-spi2-atk-2.34.2
  •  at-spi2-core-2.34.0
  •  attica-5.66.0
  •  attr-2.4.48
  •  audiofile-0.3.6
  •  audit-2.8.5
  •  avahi-0.7
  •  aws-c-common-0.3.11
  •  aws-c-event-stream-0.1.1
  •  aws-checksums-0.1.5
  •  aws-sdk-cpp-1.7.90
  •  baloo-5.66.0
  •  baloo-widgets-19.12.3
  •  bash-4.4-p23
  •  bash-completion-2.9
  •  bash-interactive-4.4-p23
  •  bcache-tools-1.0.7
  •  bind-9.14.11
  •  binutils-2.31.1
  •  binutils-wrapper-2.31.1
  •  bison-3.5.1
  •  bluez-qt-5.66.0
  •  boehm-gc-8.0.4
  •  breeze-gtk-5.17.5
  •  breeze-icons-5.66.0
  •  breeze-qt5-5.17.5
  •  brotli-1.0.7
  •  btrfs-progs-5.4.1
  •  bubblewrap-0.4.1
  •  busybox-1.31.1
  •  bvi-1.4.1
  •  bzip2-1.0.6.0.1
  •  cairo-1.16.0
  •  cairomm-1.12.2
  •  c-ares-1.15.0
  •  ccrypt-1.11
  •  cdparanoia-III-10.2
  •  celt-0.11.3
  •  chromaprint-1.4.3
  •  cifs-utils-6.9
  •  coreutils-8.31
  •  cpio-2.13
  •  cracklib-2.9.7
  •  crda-3.18
  •  cryptsetup-2.1.0
  •  cups-2.3.1
  •  curl-7.68.0
  •  cyrus-sasl-2.1.27
  •  dav1d-0.5.2
  •  db-4.8.30
  •  db-5.3.28
  •  dbus-1.12.16
  •  dbus-glib-0.110
  •  dconf-0.34.0
  •  ddrescue-1.24
  •  dejavu-fonts-2.37
  •  dejavu-fonts-minimal-2.37
  •  desktop-file-utils-0.24
  •  dhcp-4.4.2
  •  dhcpcd-8.1.4
  •  diffutils-3.7
  •  directfb-1.7.7
  •  dmraid-1.0.0.rc16
  •  dnsmasq-2.80
  •  dns-root-data-2019-01-11
  •  docbook-xml-4.5
  •  docbook-xsl-ns-1.79.2
  •  dolphin-19.12.3
  •  dolphin-plugins-19.12.3
  •  dosfstools-4.1
  •  dvp-1.2.1
  •  e2fsprogs-1.45.5
  •  ebook-tools-0.2.2
  •  ed-1.15
  •  editline-1.17.0
  •  editorconfig-core-c-0.12.1
  •  efibootmgr-17
  •  efivar-37
  •  elfutils-0.176
  •  epoxy-1.5.4
  •  ethtool-5.4
  •  exfat-1.3.0
  •  exiv2-0.27.2
  •  expat-2.2.8
  •  f2fs-tools-1.13.0
  •  faad2-2.8.8
  •  fdk-aac-2.0.1
  •  feh-3.4
  •  ffmpeg-3.4.7
  •  ffmpeg-4.2.2
  •  ffmpegthumbs-19.12.3
  •  fftw-double-3.3.8
  •  fftw-single-3.3.8
  •  file-5.38
  •  findutils-4.7.0
  •  firefox-75.0
  •  firefox-unwrapped-75.0
  •  firmware-linux-nonfree-2020-01-22
  •  flac-1.3.3
  •  flatpak-1.6.3
  •  flex-2.6.4
  •  flite-2.1.0
  •  fluidsynth-2.0.6
  •  font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3
  •  font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3
  •  font-bh-100dpi-1.0.3
  •  font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.3
  •  font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.3
  •  fontconfig-2.10.2
  •  fontconfig-2.12.6
  •  font-cursor-misc-1.0.3
  •  font-misc-misc-1.1.2
  •  frameworkintegration-5.66.0
  •  freefont-ttf-20120503
  •  freepats-20060219
  •  freetype-2.10.1
  •  fribidi-1.0.7
  •  fuse-2.9.9
  •  fuse-3.9.0
  •  gamin-0.1.10
  •  gawk-5.0.1
  •  gcc-9.2.0
  •  gcc-wrapper-9.2.0
  •  gcr-3.34.0
  •  gd-2.2.5
  •  gdbm-1.18.1
  •  gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0
  •  geoclue-2.5.5
  •  getent-1003.1-2008
  •  gettext-0.20.1
  •  gflags-2.2.2
  •  gfortran-9.2.0
  •  giflib-5.2.1
  •  glib-2.62.4
  •  glibc-2.30
  •  glibc-iconv-2.30
  •  glibc-locales-2.30
  •  glibmm-2.62.0
  •  glib-networking-2.62.3
  •  glog-0.4.0
  •  glu-9.0.1
  •  glxinfo-8.4.0
  •  gmp-6.2.0
  •  gnugrep-3.4
  •  gnum4-1.4.18
  •  gnumake-4.2.1
  •  gnupg-2.2.19
  •  gnuplot-5.2.8
  •  gnused-4.8
  •  gnutar-1.32
  •  gnutls-3.6.13
  •  gobject-introspection-1.62.0
  •  gpart-0.3
  •  gparted-1.1.0
  •  gpgme-1.13.1
  •  gpm-1.20.7
  •  gptfdisk-1.0.4
  •  grantlee-5.1.0
  •  graphite2-1.3.13
  •  groff-1.22.4
  •  grub-2.04
  •  gsasl-1.8.0
  •  gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0
  •  gsm-1.0.18
  •  gss-1.0.3
  •  gssdp-1.2.2
  •  gst-libav-1.16.2
  •  gst-plugins-bad-1.16.2
  •  gst-plugins-base-1.16.2
  •  gst-plugins-good-1.16.2
  •  gst-plugins-ugly-1.16.2
  •  gstreamer-1.16.2
  •  gtk+-2.24.32
  •  gtk+3-3.24.13
  •  gtkmm-3.24.2
  •  gtkrc-2.0
  •  gupnp-1.2.0
  •  gupnp-igd-0.2.5
  •  gyre-fonts-2.005
  •  gzip-1.10
  •  hack-font-3.003
  •  harfbuzz-2.6.4
  •  hdf5-1.10.6
  •  hdparm-9.58
  •  hicolor-icon-theme-0.17
  •  http-parser-2.9.2
  •  hunspell-1.7.0
  •  iana-etc-20190731
  •  ibus-1.5.21
  •  iceauth-1.0.8
  •  icu4c-64.2
  •  ilmbase-2.3.0
  •  imlib2-1.6.1
  •  initrd-linux-5.4.33
  •  intel2200BGFirmware-3.1
  •  iodine-0.7.0
  •  iproute2-5.5.0
  •  iptables-1.8.4
  •  iputils-20190709
  •  iso-codes-4.4
  •  iw-5.4
  •  jansson-2.12
  •  jfsutils-1.1.15
  •  jitterentropy-2.2.0
  •  joe-4.6
  •  jpegexiforient-unstable-2002-02-17
  •  jq-1.6
  •  json-c-0.13.1
  •  json-glib-1.4.4
  •  kactivities-5.66.0
  •  kactivities-stats-5.66.0
  •  kactivitymanagerd-5.17.5
  •  karchive-5.66.0
  •  kate-19.12.3
  •  kauth-5.66.0
  •  kbd-2.0.4
  •  kbookmarks-5.66.0
  •  kcmutils-5.66.0
  •  kcodecs-5.66.0
  •  kcompletion-5.66.0
  •  kconfig-5.66.0
  •  kconfigwidgets-5.66.0
  •  kcoreaddons-5.66.0
  •  kcrash-5.66.0
  •  kdbusaddons-5.66.0
  •  kdeclarative-5.66.0
  •  kde-cli-tools-5.17.5
  •  kdecoration-5.17.5
  •  kded-5.66.0
  •  kdegraphics-thumbnailers-19.12.3
  •  kde-gtk-config-5.17.5
  •  kdelibs4support-5.66.0
  •  kdeplasma-addons-5.17.5
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  •  kdesu-5.66.0
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  •  kdoctools-5.66.0
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  •  keyutils-1.6.1
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  •  kguiaddons-5.66.0
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  •  khotkeys-5.17.5
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  •  ki18n-5.66.0
  •  kiconthemes-5.66.0
  •  kidletime-5.66.0
  •  kimageformats-5.66.0
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  •  kinit-5.66.0
  •  kio-5.66.0
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  •  kirigami2-5.66.0
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  •  kitemviews-5.66.0
  •  kjobwidgets-5.66.0
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  •  knotifyconfig-5.66.0
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  •  kparts-5.66.0
  •  kpeople-5.66.0
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  •  libcanberra-0.30
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  •  libcap-ng-0.7.9
  •  libcbor-unstable-2019-07-25
  •  libcddb-1.3.2
  •  libcdio-2.1.0
  •  libcerf-1.13
  •  libcroco-0.6.13
  •  libdaemon-0.14
  •  libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.3+16
  •  libdc1394-2.2.6
  •  libde265-1.0.5
  •  libdmtx-0.7.4
  •  libdrm-2.4.100
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  •  libdvdcss-1.4.2
  •  libdvdnav-6.0.1
  •  libdvdread-6.0.2
  •  libedit-20191231-3.1
  •  libelf-0.8.13
  •  liberation-fonts-2.00.4
  •  libev-4.31
  •  libevdev-1.8.0
  •  libevent-2.1.11
  •  libewf-20171104
  •  libexif-0.6.21
  •  libffi-3.3
  •  libfido2-1.3.1
  •  libfontenc-1.1.4
  •  libgcrypt-1.8.5
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Version: unstable
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-11-03
Votes: 6


I like NixOS, but it really depends on your skill level of using the Nix programming language because I couldn't get my printer to work at all. I like that it supports Flatpaks because it leaves less residue when you uninstall an app, also I like how it's immutable because it is more secure than other distros like Arch Linux and Gentoo. I am right now writing this review on NixOS, so I got the internet to work at least. I also like that you can save everything in a configuration file because if I break my PC and have to get a new one or if I am setting up lots of computers I can setup everything with just one file and 2 commands.


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Version: unstable
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-10-28
Votes: 18


Nix has changed how I manage linux in the best way, repeatable and declarative. It takes some investment but is well worth the effort. I have been using it for about a year and love that all of my configs are consistent between servers and workstations. I don't even have to think about it anymore. The few times I've encountered major issues or changed something in my system that I couldn't figure out, I have been able to roll back easily to a previous generation and then look at my commit history to find the problem. I even had a server die once, so I went to another server, installed nixos, cloned my repo and was up and running in 30 minutes.


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Version: 24.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-09-27
Votes: 30


It has been said that this distribution has a steep learning curve, but ironically, this is true mainly for advanced users, such as developers. For common usage, it is sufficient to list the desired packages in a single configuration file, and the system will rebuild itself and stay up-to-date, providing an unprecedented level of stability over time. The software repository is extensive, and the package manager nix can be reliably used with any Linux distribution, offering a robust and well-designed alternative to other distro-agnostic package managers like Flatpak or Snap. In case of issues after an update, rolling back to a previous 'generation' of the system is straightforward. Just remember to run the garbage collector periodically to free up disk space by removing very old versions of packages!


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