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How to Learn Nix

by @ianthehenry ianthehenry.com 6 min read

Five years ago, I migrated my VPS from Arch Linux to NixOS. I had no idea what I was doing. I had never used Nix before. I thought I could figure it out. Five years later, I’m still running NixOS. And I still have no idea how it works.

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