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If you want to get in to Nix I think two important things to note:

1. Nix is not a "package manager" and I think it's better at first to not think of it as one because you'll assume how it works incorrectly. It is a package manager, but it doesn't have the same workflow as yarn or etc. That trips a lot of people up.

2. You need to read the Nix Pills documentation. It is not long and guides you through every abstraction so you understand from the basics how it works. Nix is actually pretty self descriptive. I setup my home's Linux Router entirely by just hacking and searching through the nixpkgs repo without understanding things, but if I'd read the Nix Pills things would have been so much clearer to me. Especially when debugging or reading through what a derivation was doing.