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on Jan 13, 2016
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Docker for Beginners
But "It's popular" seems to be one of the main reasons.
Otherwise more people would use Nix.
tayo42
on Jan 13, 2016
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How does nix offer any of the advantages that docker does? Isn't it just another way to do config management? Plus the added complexity of using a very niche os. It seems like it's not popular for a reason...
icebraining
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Nix is a package manager with isolation, not a config manager. And it runs on any Linux distro or even Mac OS X, you don't need to use NixOS.
https://nixos.org/nix/
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Otherwise more people would use Nix.