Tips & Resources
Tutorials & Guides
- NixOS & Flakes Book — comprehensive intro
- A Gentle Introduction to Nix Flakes — flake anatomy
- Why you don’t need flake-utils — the case for plain Nix
Vimjoyer (YouTube)
- Nix explained from the ground up
- NixOS: Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Ultimate NixOS Guide
- Modularize NixOS and Home Manager
- Nixvim: Neovim Distro Powered By Nix
- Is NixOS The Best Gaming Distro
Other
Nix Language
- explainix — hover over Nix syntax to see what it means
- inherit keyword
High-Level Libraries
- flake-utils
- flake-parts
- snowfall lib — this flake’s directory structure is inspired by snowfall
Updating Custom Packages
Use nix-update:
nix-update legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.<pkg> --flake --override-filename packages/top-level/<pkg>/package.nix