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

• Ampersand — NixOS setup walkthrough

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 the bump recipe, which wraps nix-update and figures out the attribute path and platform for you:

just bump packages/top-level/<pkg>       # or packages/custom/<pkg>

Under the hood it runs scripts/bump-package.sh; extra flags are passed straight through to nix-update, e.g. just bump packages/top-level/<pkg> --version=1.2.3.

ZFS

• ZFS on NixOS
• Basic Guide to Working with ZFS
• LevelOneTechs ZFS Guide