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by nitsky 1372 days ago
What in particular did you find strange and unconventional?
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im3w1l 1372 days ago
For me it was the core premise that is both the blessing and the curse. That it is only possible to install software by first packaging it.
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amelius 1372 days ago
That's because the basic idea is immutability and that doesn't go well with OSes designed around mutability.

Nix/Guix are basically the "glue" that connects two worlds.

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