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What in particular did you find strange and unconventional?



For me it was the core premise that is both the blessing and the curse. That it is only possible to install software by first packaging it.


That's because the basic idea is immutability and that doesn't go well with OSes designed around mutability.

Nix/Guix are basically the "glue" that connects two worlds.




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