Nina: NixOS Intuitive Navigation Assistant
Hey guys, June here! I’ve been building Nina for a while because NixOS became my favorite linux distro to use but the command surface is brutal and confusing with way too many layers of abstraction.
I have actually some really exciting ambitious things planned for NixOS as a whole but i’ll talk more about that at a later date!
Nina wraps the full NixOS command surface in plain memorable verbs. One binary, zero dependencies, written in Zig 0.16.
The search widget is the part I’m most proud of — it opens inline, results scroll with you as you navigate, you can backspace and search for something else without leaving. No more switching to the browser and searching the nixpkgs site for everything.
Install on NixOS:
curl -fsSL kepr.uk/nina/install.sh | sh
koh steal kepr.uk/nina && koh build
Source at nina — kepr.
Built by Asha Software — a privacy-first indie studio.
llm — used Claude as an implementation partner. Architecture and all decisions are mine. Every agent save is attributed and auditable in the history.