While Nix can use a lot of memory while evaluating larger systems (or searching all of nixpkgs by evaluating everything), it is usable on systems with 2GB RAM.

While Nix can use a lot of memory while evaluating larger systems (or searching all of nixpkgs by evaluating everything), it is usable on systems with 2GB RAM. Nix 2.0 had a bug which caused excessive memory use, but it's been fixed in 2.1: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/2825e05d21ecabc8b8524836baf0b9b05da993c6 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/2825e05d21ecabc8b8524836... https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/48662d151bdf4a38670897beacea9d1bd750376a https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/48662d151bdf4a38670897be...