Does anyone know why Nix takes up roughly 500 MB with no packages installed? I want to try NixOS, but the “minimal” image is over twice as big as my full (term

Does anyone know why Nix takes up roughly 500 MB with no packages installed? I want to try NixOS, but the “minimal” image is over twice as big as my full (terminal only) development environment using Alpine Linux. I was kind of expecting NixOS to be closer in size to a glibc-based minimal distribution (after initial install)…