What Sextant does differently,and what it does not do.
Two comparisons. The first is about the way of working, the second is about the products you are probably holding this next to.
From clicks to commits.
Not a second way of working next to the console. The button in the console writes the commit, so there is one history and it is yours.
Not just managed. Provable.
Traditional MDM sends commands to a device and records whether they seemed to land. Sextant describes what the device should be, and the device builds itself into that. The difference shows up everywhere.
Where Sextant sits.
Sextant does one thing: NixOS workstations you run yourself. If you manage phones and Windows laptops, the products below do that and Sextant does not.
Checked August 2026 against public documentation. If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
One document for every laptop.site.audit.
Take it, run it, help build it.
The software is yours under the EUPL 1.2 and needs nobody’s permission. What the project needs is people: a laptop model we have never imaged, a language nobody has translated, a bug found by running it for real.