My impression of configuration in nix is that a lot of configuration that in any other distro would be handled by changing some /etc/file is instead done in a c

My impression of configuration in nix is that a lot of configuration that in any other distro would be handled by changing some /etc/file is instead done in a completely separate way by editing some nix file. So that's one user-visible way it differs from what I mentioned of using a patch for the /etc/file. Some simple example I found just now: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/489509/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file-in-nixos https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/489509/how-do-i-mod...