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Nix is a tool for managing packages and system configurations in a declarative manner. Flakes are a new user interface to clean up many of its rough edges. This guide explains how to use Nix from first principles, via a Flake-focused approach.
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The focus of this post is on "universal" package management systems. There are a lot of these. Some make sense but a lot of them are very flawed and just makes package management more difficult on a system. Learning Normal Package Managers Normal package managers like apt and pacman can sometimes be annoying too. It means that if you use various different distributions that are designed to work well with a specific package manager and are different from each other, it means you end up having to read the manual of all of them and having to remember more crap to do the same thing.
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