Frequently Asked Questions

• Are these configurations restriced to dendritic setups?

  Yes. The reason is that using dendritic patterns allows us to easily combine configs from many different community sources knowing that each and every .nix file will be a flake-parts module.

  Layers (blessed presets) are always loaded by import-tree, but only enabled when you include them as part of a top-level module of yours.

• Is dendrix a NixOS based distribution ?

  In a way, but we still don't provide customized bootable installers.

  It is more a flake-parts configurations collection that can be included on any dendritic setup.

• Can I contribute my awesome Desktop rice?

  Sure! the best way to do that is to keep your desktop rice on your own repository. And use this repo to add an import-tree object pointing to it. See the notes above about contributing on dev/npins/sources.json and dev/community/*.nix.

• How are layers made?

  A layer is a blessed dendritic setup, aimed to reuse aspects from the community provided dendritic repositories. However these blessed configs might have conventions that community repositories not necessarily follow (since our repos are mainly used for our own infra). So it is part of this community to create discussions about how to name things so that best practices and conventions arise around sharing and extending known aspects.

  For example, if we had a gaming aspect. We would need conventions on how to name aspect modules for gaming. And people would likely provide such dendritic configurations on their setups.

  So, long story short, layers are community owned setups. And repos are owned by a respective community member.

• How about Games/AI/Devops/Security layers?

  You are right on point!, that's precisely why this project started. We also want to provide specialized versions of NixOS focused on pre-configured security, gaming, development setups.