If you're interested in just the package manager Nix check out https://nix.dev/ https://nix.dev/ It guides you to get a reproducible development environment up

If you're interested in just the package manager Nix check out https://nix.dev/ https://nix.dev/ It guides you to get a reproducible development environment up and running with nix. This way you can get all the goodies like `nix-shell -p nodejs` without switching your OS first :)