Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka]
Please Stop Using `nixos-rebuild switch`
Better practices for safely and reliably deploying and updating NixOS systems.
trynix — boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser
Pick any package from 13 years of nixpkgs history and boot it in an x86_64 Linux VM in your tab. No server anywhere.
I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Any Nix package, live in your browser
tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.
I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
Tracking NixOS option values and dependencies | oddlama's blog
oddlama's personal web page and blog
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix.
Secrets Don’t Belong in Config
An audit of 445 NixOS modules shows the cost of making configuration and secrets share one interface.
Building Linux kernel on macOS natively
Setting up a virtual machine with GPU passthrough
A guide for configuring NixOS with nvidia GPU passthrough to a virtual machine in virt-manager.
[XFCE] My first simple rice. I love green
304 votes, 18 comments. 617K subscribers in the unixporn community. Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations…
My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy
After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
