Nix Toolbox - Fedora Toolbox 🌶️ with Nix and Home Manager¶

This project builds on top of Fedora Toolbox container image and adds Nix package manager and optionally Home Manager for the following benefits:

• The easiest way to get Nix and Home Manager working on Fedora and Fedora Atomic Desktops
• Simple access to 100k+ packages in the Nix Packages collection
• Support for Nix-based development environment used by various open-source projects
• Use Home Manager to manage your home environment as code, and partially also system environment
• Works well with Toolbx or Distrobox

Follow Getting Started to try out Nix Toolbox.

The project was introduced at DevConf.CZ 2025 conference, you can find the introduction talk here.

Contributors¶

See CONTRIBUTORS.md for the list of people who helped make this project better.