[bronzecarnage]

My biggest gripe with nix is that you need sudo rights to get it running properly on another distro. I know you can do the nix-user-chroot thing, but it's not possible on machines where kernel namespaces aren't accessible for unprivileged users.

I spent time understanding it, and getting it working, but it really doesn't work just universally. Once the install process becomes more like, say, miniconda -- where an unprivileged user can install it locally with ease -- nix will get a massive boost in my books. Until then, I can only yearn.

[ris]

It is possible to use from a completely unprivileged environment by putting the nix store in your home directory instead of `/nix`. But (and it's a big but) you'll then have to build all packages from scratch because the hashes for you packages will be different to the ones in the nix binary cache.