By a weird turn of events I ended up watching a presentation about Nix. I'm having a hard time understanding how that's better than Flatpak or containers. Maybe I'll have to do deep dive on that.
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Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 01:17:08 JST
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/dev/loop0 (loop0@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 02:23:15 JST
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@badnetmask I believe the main point of nix is how you can have your install described as a text file, so it makes it easy to reinstall your machine anywhere
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Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 02:23:15 JST
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I knew that much already, but also they were talking about "self-contained apps with all their dependencies". That's the part that got me confused. -
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Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 02:25:31 JST
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I'll check it out once this conference is over. Thanks.
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