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aucisson_masque on May 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

Couldn't nixos main feature be implemented in a mainstream distribution ?

Technically you can install nix package manager on Debian, and what is nixos main interest without it's package manager ?

TsiCClawOfLight on May 13, 2025 [–]

It manages the entire, immutable, OS with it. That's a completely different paradigm, you cannot simply mix them!

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