Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way

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Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way
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Not going to lie, I think I lost interest after the 3rd reference to "Nix" and there being no guide as to whether it means Unix-like, Nix (the plan9 fork), NixOS (Linux distro), Nix (the package manager) or something referred to as "The Nix Language"

Nix the package manager uses the Nix language, and NixOS is a distro built on top of it. They're all part of the same topic, and the article was talking about that.

Those last three are roughly the same topic and the subject of the article

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