Big ol' List Of Resources

General resources for help with using Nix/NixOS

Search Utilities

NixOS Option Search Search for NixOS options to use in your config

Nix Packages Search Search for Nix packages to install

Tip

Clicking the ”📦 Source” or “Declared in” link on a package or option in the above links will take you to the file in nixpkgs that the option/package is defined in. You can use this to see exactly what an option does, or how a package is built.

Home Manager Option Search Search for Home Manager options to use in your config

SourceGraph Nix Search Search other people's configs for stuff to reference

Noogle Search available builtins and other features of Nix the language

Documentation / Guides

NixOS Manual Main documentation for NixOS

NixPkgs Manual Documentation of nixpkgs

NixOS Wiki Unofficial user's wiki for NixOS

Nix.dev Guide Reference Manual for Nix

Nix Pills Amazing guides on Nix and nixpkgs

Determinate System Nix Guide Determinate System's Documentation For Nix

Editor Extensions

Nix Language for VSCode Provides syntax highlighting

Alejandra integration for VSCode Integrates with the Alejandra CLI to auto-format

Misc

NixOS hardware Collection of configs for various hardware configurations

Nixpkgs Issue Search Issues in the nixpkgs repo, helpful for seeing if something is broken for someone else

My Config :) My own config that you could use for reference (and maybe star idk 😳)