> The daemon needs to be run as root root in a standard multi-user install which rules out HPC-like envs where Nix would actually shine. That's an important is

> The daemon needs to be run as root root in a standard multi-user install which rules out HPC-like envs where Nix would actually shine. That's an important issue! For those who haven't seen the recent work on it, check it out below. Théophane Huffschmitt is working on it here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5380 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5380 and here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5226 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5226 tracking issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5208 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5208 NixCon 2022 talk: https://youtu.be/Gw3LtgbKouc https://youtu.be/Gw3LtgbKouc