Even managing global/user packages is fine, if you want parity with a normal package manager. nix-env is pretty simple to get started with. Managing that decla

Even managing global/user packages is fine, if you want parity with a normal package manager. nix-env is pretty simple to get started with. Managing that declaratively is slightly more challenging. That’s when you need to understand the Nix language and use something like home-manager or the file approach in the blog post. But at this point, Nix is competing against something like Ansible/Puppet and not a standard package manager.