It is its own distribution - but like Nix itself, it installs just about everything into /nix. That means you can bootstrap it on another distribution as descri

It is its own distribution - but like Nix itself, it installs just about everything into /nix. That means you can bootstrap it on another distribution as described here: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installing-from-other-distro https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installing-from-o... > Because Nix (the package manager) & Nixpkgs (the Nix packages collection) can both be installed on any (most?) Linux distributions, they can be used to install NixOS in various creative ways. You can, for instance: > 2. Install NixOS on the same partition (in place!), from your existing non-NixOS Linux distribution using NIXOS_LUSTRATE. > /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE tells the NixOS bootup scripts to move everything that's in the root partition to /old-root. This will move your existing distribution out of the way in the very early stages of the NixOS bootup. which is what the nixos-infect script does, because DO doesn't have native NixOS images.