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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s the thing with Nix: It works on all the distros.

… as long as you install Nix.

You could say the same about Docker, Flatpak, AppImage or even Snap. Nix is nothing special in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nix is nothing special in that regard.

Well, with the exception that all of those tools use userns to ship almost a full userspace tree while Nix uses no containerisation whatsoever to do its job.