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How does nix offer any of the advantages that docker does? Isn't it just another way to do config management? Plus the added complexity of using a very niche os
by tayo42 11y ago
How does nix offer any of the advantages that docker does? Isn't it just another way to do config management? Plus the added complexity of using a very niche os. It seems like it's not popular for a reason...
- icebraining 11y agoNix is a package manager with isolation, not a config manager. And it runs on any Linux distro or even Mac OS X, you don't need to use NixOS. https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/