nix-community/NixOS-WSL
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NixOS on WSL [maintainer=@nzbr]
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2022-07-20 · latest 2025-05-21
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…far easier to work with, than, let's say, Ubuntu. But beware, it has steep learning curve. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
comment by srfn · 2025-05-21 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source -
Somewhat related: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
comment by turboponyy · 2024-09-12 · in Show HN: Build Your WSL Distro in Docker -
Nix != NixOS. It runs on WSL: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL
comment by xyzsparetimexyz · 2024-07-07 · in Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework -
I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.
comment by TheFreim · 2023-06-09 · in NixOS for the Impatient -
…friends who are less technical easily install all of the things, it could be a game changer. Edit: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32173111
comment by bionhoward · 2023-06-09 · in NixOS for the Impatient -
…NixOS to WSL2, complete with systemd support, plus Docker Desktop support and some other goodies: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL Nix also works on other WSL distros, provided they're using WSL2. Nix supports cross-compiling…
comment by pxc · 2022-07-20 · in About using Nix in my development workflow