I run Ubuntu primarily, and forgo apt-get in favor of nix. I've never run NixOS before (some day..). I haven't used flatpak or snap before, but the comment I l

I run Ubuntu primarily, and forgo apt-get in favor of nix. I've never run NixOS before (some day..). I haven't used flatpak or snap before, but the comment I linked outlines a lot of the benefits I see with nix. Conceptually it's more like Make + a package manager, if Make were a (well designed) pure functional language and wasn't afflicted with grotesque generated code.