[drcongo]

I recently started using devbox over homebrew for package installs on my Mac and this has gotten me more interested in nix - however, neither of the VPS providers we use offer NixOS as an OS option, is there a way to achieve that declarative setup on Ubuntu?

[r14c]

the magic of nixos-anywhere is that you can start with a common OS base image and overwrite it with nixos.

you can also run nix as a service on other operating systems. https://lix.systems/install/#on-any-other-linuxmacos-system

[mdaniel]

I had high hopes, but it's obviously designed for less paranoid consumers since executing the verb "plan" is all "ya, fam, but I'm gonna need to be root to tell you what I'm gonna do"

  `lix-installer` needs to run as `root`, attempting to escalate now via `sudo`...
  TRACE execute:execute: lix_installer::cli: Execvp'ing `"sudo"` with args `["sudo", "env", "SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash", "./lix-installer", "-vvvv", "--logger=full", "plan"]`

I guess I'll have to patch the source to have it tell me why it wants unrestricted access just to tell me what it is going to do

[drcongo]

Excellent, thanks. I'll do some reading!