Nixsa - a Nix Standalone Environment

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Hi, I found a way to use Nix without any installation - just download the tarball, extract it, and you’re done. All the configuration and state remains within the folder. Let me know what you think!

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Neat project. :+1:
There exists a similar project called GitHub - DavHau/nix-portable: Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured which you might also be interested in.

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Thanks! I’ve seen nix-portable. I still made Nixsa since I wanted to be able to manage profiles, and also I really like having all the configuration and state inside the portable directory instead of having one per-user state.

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@knedlsepp I added a short comparison to nix-portable in the README file.

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