The about-nix page is rather helpful on why you would want to use nix: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2609700/download/1/manual/#id495822 http://hydra.nixos.org/

The about-nix page is rather helpful on why you would want to use nix: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2609700/download/1/manual/#id495822 http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2609700/download/1/manual/#id49... From my cursory glance over nix's advantages, it sort of looks like the vagrant deployment system, but for package management. Or maybe something akin to Chef and Puppet (of which I have no familiarity with whatsoever).