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guix
Obsolete mirror of GNU Guix. Pull requests are ignored. Go to https://codeberg.org/guix/guix instead. (by guix-mirror)
You could take a look at guix [1], it's very much like nix, but is available as a package manager for other distros.
[1] https://guix.gnu.org/
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Kargo
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I agree it's annoying, though if you need dynamically linked stuff, there's always the FHS environments [1]. You can also do an FHS shell if you don't want to make a package.
There's also nix-ld [2], which allows you to directly run unpatched binaries.
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi...
[2] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=progr...
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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
> I'm not sure what type of software you're talking about...
The original post mentions several examples where he ran into friction. (Monitoring/tracking software, pinentry-kwallet, playwright, tableplus).
A popular escape hatch for NixOS (or other immutable distros) for commandline tools is distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Another good tip mentioned on the NixOS wiki FAQ is nix-ldd with the dependencies from steam-run.
Still. The benefit of having a declared system configuration does come with the cost of having to put in that effort up front; and a steeper learning curve for knowing how to get around those difficulties compared to more typical distros.
