#99: Nix and Nix OS. How? Why? What for?

Nix promises reproducible packages. But… why?

NixOS, on the other hand, is a Linux distribution with a very strange proposition: do everything differently and it’ll be great.

The first question that comes to mind is: why would anyone do this to themselves? But the second one is even more intriguing: why does everything else start to feel pointless afterward?

We’ll start with a quick intro to what these tools actually are, move through the beautifully simple developer environments you can build with Nix, and end with the unique powers NixOS offers as a distribution.

Błażej Święcicki

For over a dozen years, I’ve been building and maintaining large and small infrastructures. When I’m not doing that, I play around with weird technologies or throw people around. Currently, as an SRE at j-labs, I advise people on how to make their lives better.