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Declarative Linux distribution resources, packages, and home configuration tooling.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Nixos projects on GitHub are laya (33.2K stars), nixpkgs (26.5K stars) and nix (17.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 15 Nixos repositories with 142.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was KytyPS5, with +156 stars in a day.

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142.2KStars in total

+485Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+156

KytyPS5

KytyPS5/KytyPS5 · ★ 8.7K

KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.

+130

laya

NandhaKishorM/laya · ★ 33.2K

Laya is a non-autoregressive decision engine: instead of generating text, it answers typed questions — multiple choice, a numeric score, or yes/no — about any text in a single forward pass, across 100+ languages. A built-in router detects the language and picks the right checkpoint per request.

+95

bloodborne_pc

deadinside28/bloodborne_pc · ★ 3K

bbport is a native Linux port of Bloodborne (CUSA03173, v1.09) that runs the original PS4 executable directly on an x86-64 Linux PC. It isn't a general emulator — the game's own code executes natively, a small custom runtime replaces the PS4 system libraries, and a Vulkan renderer derived from shadPS4 handles the GPU side, including temporal upscaling with FSR 3.1/4/4.1.1.

+32

herdr-gpui

penso/herdr-gpui · ★ 1.4K

Herdr GPUI is a native desktop client for Herdr, a terminal/agent session daemon, letting you view terminal sessions, workspaces, Git worktrees, and agent activity through your local Herdr daemon on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

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15 projects · by stars

#1 · NandhaKishorM/laya
laya
Laya is a non-autoregressive decision engine: instead of generating text, it answers typed questions — multiple choice, a numeric score, or yes/no — about any text in a single forward pass, across 100+ languages. A built-in router detects the language and picks the right checkpoint per request.
33.2K
#2 · NixOS/nixpkgs
nixpkgs
Nixpkgs is a collection of over 140,000 software packages that can be installed using the Nix package manager, and it also implements NixOS, a purely-functional Linux distribution built on top of those packages.
26.5K
#3 · NixOS/nix
nix
Nix is a purely functional package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes installing software reliable and reproducible.
17.9K

4
winapps
16.1Kwinapps-org/winapps · Shell
WinApps runs Windows applications like Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud on GNU/Linux with GNOME, KDE Plasma or XFCE, presenting them as if they were native apps, complete with shortcuts in your application menu.
5
shell
12.9Kcaelestia-dots/shell · QML
Caelestia shell is an animated desktop shell for Linux: the visual layer of your desktop — bar, launcher, dashboard, notifications — rendered with Quickshell on top of the Hyprland window manager under Wayland.
6
home-manager
10.4Knix-community/home-manager · Nix
Home Manager manages your user environment with the Nix package manager: you declare user-specific (non-global) packages and dotfiles in configuration instead of installing and tweaking things by hand.
7
KytyPS5
8.7KKytyPS5/KytyPS5 · C++
KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.
- ps5
- qt6
- sdl3
- jit
8
serpantinum
7.3Kilyamiro/serpantinum · QML
Serpantinum is a shell for Wayland compositors built with Quickshell and QML. It used to be a collection of dotfiles but has now become a standalone shell package you install and update on its own, separately from your compositor config.
9
codex-desktop-linux
3.9Kilysenko/codex-desktop-linux · JavaScript
codex-desktop is an unofficial, community-maintained distribution of OpenAI's official Linux ChatGPT desktop app. It repackages the signed upstream payload into native deb, RPM, pacman, AppImage, and Nix outputs, adds optional Linux-only features, and installs as a separate 'ChatGPT Community' app alongside the official one.
10
bloodborne_pc
3Kdeadinside28/bloodborne_pc · C++
bbport is a native Linux port of Bloodborne (CUSA03173, v1.09) that runs the original PS4 executable directly on an x86-64 Linux PC. It isn't a general emulator — the game's own code executes natively, a small custom runtime replaces the PS4 system libraries, and a Vulkan renderer derived from shadPS4 handles the GPU side, including temporal upscaling with FSR 3.1/4/4.1.1.
11
herdr-gpui
1.4Kpenso/herdr-gpui · Rust
Herdr GPUI is a native desktop client for Herdr, a terminal/agent session daemon, letting you view terminal sessions, workspaces, Git worktrees, and agent activity through your local Herdr daemon on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
12
underclass
237ghuntley/underclass · Rust
It pools multiple ChatGPT/Codex and GitHub Copilot subscriptions behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint — when one account runs dry it cools down until its window resets and comes back on its own.
13
hearthstone-linux-gui
217DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui · Rust
It is a native GTK4 desktop manager for installing, updating, logging into, and launching Hearthstone on Linux, written in Rust.
14
omnibin
145fzakaria/omnibin · Python
omnibin is a FUSE-based lazy filesystem that puts every binary ever published across 13+ years of nixpkgs on your PATH, fetching each package's bytes from cache.nixos.org only when a file inside it is actually read.
15
juhradial-mx
140JuhLabs/juhradial-mx · Python
JuhRadial MX is an open-source Linux app that fills the gap left by Logitech's Options+ software, giving MX Master mice (and now the MX Keypad and MX Keys S) a radial action menu, button remapping and per-app profiles on KDE Plasma, GNOME and Hyprland.