NixOS-WSL

NixOS! [1] You can keep the entrie system config in a single git repo. For me, it's far easier to work with, than, let's say, Ubuntu. But beware, it has steep learning curve. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

Somewhat related: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

Nix != NixOS. It runs on WSL: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

I have not used it but this might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL You could also install the nix package manager on Ubuntu.

Random question, and yes, I’ll google it and ask GPT-4 or Bing (lol) but does anyone here know if it would be possible to run NixOS within WSL2 on a Windows 11 machine without having to dual boot and stuff? That would be incredibly useful for dev work. Right now I’m using Ubuntu, and it’s awesome, with the obvious caveats, but I am Nix-curious for quite a while and would love to give it a spin in that way if it were reasonably doable. Especially to help friends who are less technical easily install all of the things, it could be a game changer. Edit: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32173111

There's a community port of NixOS to WSL2, complete with systemd support, plus Docker Desktop support and some other goodies: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL Nix also works on other WSL distros, provided they're using WSL2. Nix supports cross-compiling Windows binaries as well. I know some people use it for that. There is no 'native' support— you can't use Nix as an alternative to Winget or Chocolatey on Windows. Right now a lot of important stuff in Nixpkgs depends on a POSIX shell and Unix coreutils implementation for the basic build environment, and that's shared between many operating systems. Trying to fit Windows into that doesn't really make sense, and there's not really any momentum behind the idea of using any particular other runtime environment (could be a scripting language instead of a shell + coreutils) for those