this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
18 points (100.0% liked)
Nix / NixOS
2329 readers
15 users here now
Main links
Videos
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Nix shell basically just downloads the software (if it's not already downloaded) and then modifies your PATH to include the new software.
Persistent data stay persistent.
Nix shell has one use case common with docker (local development), but other than that the solutions are not similar at all.