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And you can get it on every distribution! You can install Nix on virtually all Linux distributions (IIRC Fedora Silverblue is the exception due to read-only /) and macOS.

Of course, you will lose some benefits, such as the NixOS module system. But set up Nix and you have access to packages in nixpkgs and nix-shell (basically virtual environments with any package). Add home-manager and you can set up your user environment declaratively.



You can use follow this to use Nix in Silverblue https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Installation_Guide#Installing_wi...




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