FAQ

Do you intend on making this an official NixOS application?

Yes! I will be writing an RFC to see if people are interested in this.

That's my ultimate goal, anyway.

Aren't there other people doing what you're doing?

Yes! Check the comparisons page for a listing of there tools as well as some pros/cons to each one.

What about home-manager and nix-darwin? Will you support those systems?

They are fundamentally separate projects with roughly similar surfaces, so no. I am a heavy user of both projects, though, so I may write my own darwin and hm CLIs that roughly mirror this.

Think about this:

• home-manager has to work in the user context, while NixOS works in the system one.
• nix-darwin doesn't interact with boot scripts, while NixOS does.

Among a slew of other differences. The rebuild + switch workflow may be the same, but the options are different, and I'm lazy. So no.

Can the option search work with other sources?

Yes! However, this has been moved to a separate tool called optnix.

nixos option -i actually uses optnix as a library within its code, so it is exactly the same UX.

More questions?

File an issue! Perhaps it's important enough to add to this FAQ as well.