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by zarzavat 658 days ago
Nix/NixOS and Docker work in fundamentally different ways so you have to decide which method of operation is most suitable for your use case.

If you use Docker then each container requires its OS image, which is fine if you’re running on a server and running other people’s software, but if you want to develop your own containers on a laptop then that convenience becomes an inconvenience. Nix is more lightweight.