> Unfortunately, the easiest way to get it running is by installing Snap; which I didn't do. Instead I ran it on Alpine Edge (one of the few distros that actual

> Unfortunately, the easiest way to get it running is by installing Snap; which I didn't do. Instead I ran it on Alpine Edge (one of the few distros that actually has it in their package manager). Enabling LXD is a one-liner on NixOS: virtualisation.lxd.enable = true; LXC and LXD are a somewhat common approach for NixOS users who want to quickly try something out in the environment of a traditional distro. :)