Nix darwin ships manualas with every commit. You can either build one yourself or use/refer to hosted manuals that are deployed with every release!

Local

After the installation of nix-darwin, you can use darwin-help or man 5 configuration.nix command to access locally available copy of manuals with version corresponds to your installation.

Build

Use the following commands to build manuals for desired commit/tag:

nix build github:xinux-org/nix-darwin/nix-darwin-24.11#manualHTML --no-write-lock-file

You may also check out how we build and serve manuals via our GitHub actions.

Options explorer

If you want to quickly find/navigate through options, you can use our web ui for searching options at options.nix-darwin.uz.

List of hosted manuals

Here, you can find list of available manuals hosted in this domain.

• unstable (25.05) -> master
• stable (24.11)