[PaulDavisThe1st]

On the other hand, Nix is also the only Linux distribution to have broken ("changed") the LD_LIBRARY_PATH behavior of the runtime linker, which means 3rd party "self-contained" packages can't work there, even though they do on every other Linux distro.

So there's that.

[tadfisher]

The NixOS solution to that is `buildFHSUserEnv` (soon to use bubblewrap under the hood) but obviously that's not ideal.

`nix bundle` (coming with the upcoming flakes feature) promises to make Nix-built binaries runnable without nix, for the opposite of what you want.