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6 Tips on — how to Get Started with NixOS and Nix Packages are your next Docker Desktop Replacement
A great alternative to Docker Desktop is running your own Nix Packages.
It’s believed by computer science researchers, older software is considered to be safer and more secure. Following this guidance, we will deep dive into NixOS.
Let’s give NixOS 21.11 — a try with a few steps below.
First you will need to install NixOS, a powerful linux OS distribution written as a purely-functional package management software.
NixOS Packages are built to be functional, meaning the “same inputs” will always include the “same outputs”.
NixOS is your next linux distribution alternative to Docker in 2022
With the help of Nix packages, your development environment can be produced exactly the same on any device whereas with Docker Desktop your development environment will run in a daemon and not be reproducible between builds.
How to Install NixOS and Nix Packages
We’ll start by installing this script into on our host. In this case will be testing Nix Packages on an Intel — MacOS Macbook Pro. Both NixOs and Nix packages support windows, linux and mac.
sh <(curl -L…
