[bob406]

Absolutely agree that "isolated installations" are the future. Plan9 was way ahead of their time when they used their version of chroot and mounting to achieve basically something like that. And now the Fuchsia team is making this a pillar of their architecture even going so far that all installs are transparent: almost like running an app directly from an URL. And sandboxing it like a webpage, even when it's a native app. Ooops, I digress. But I really see this as a trend and NixOs one of the systems which are used to collect experience on the concept of isolation and refine it.