This shows only a surface level understanding of what nix provides here. One of the biggest benefits is the binary cache mechanism, which allows you to skip bu

This shows only a surface level understanding of what nix provides here. One of the biggest benefits is the binary cache mechanism, which allows you to skip building something but have the effective result of the build pulled from the cache. It's classical distributions that make building from source only possible for those who can afford the infrastructure, nix is what enables the rest of us to do so.