Introducing NixOS Anywhere

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A pretty high-level article about a little tool we built. Hope you like it!

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The tool looks quite interesting, but the website layout and column width is just about unusable on mobile.

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Was there a particular reason to rename it from nixos-remote? That said, I’ve used this for some months now and it’s a pleasure on Hetzner at least.

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Yeah, we’ll get that fixed.

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How does this compared with GitHub - numtide/system-manager: Manage system config using nix on any distro ?

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The mobile experience should be better now.

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How does this compared with GitHub - numtide/system-manager: Manage system config using nix on any distro ?

System manager doesn’t replace the underlying operating system, it brings NixOS modules to non-NixOS distros. With NixOS Anywhere you point it at a system running Ubuntu for example, and by the end the OS has been replaced with NixOS.

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Thanks for sharing, nixos-anywhere’s really a interesting tool, will give it a try!

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Could you use nixos-anywhere to install nixos on a fresh laptop using a live-usb? Without using a second computer with ssh?

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If you can boot a live-usb, why not use NixOS installer?

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Then I’d have to run more commands:

  • disko
  • nixos-install
  • …

Instead of one?

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You have some work to do before using nixos-anywhere anyway, like describing the disk layout GitHub - numtide/nixos-anywhere at numtide.com