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by jordanbeiber 2062 days ago
After using it for a few weeks it feels like everyone else got package and config management kind of wrong.

Nix really shines when I’ve started to use nix-shell for different projects - can recommend!

Best way to describe it is that the os is no longer kind of a ”repl”.

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Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.