Getting started with Nix and Nix Flakes

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NixOS

The Nix website's download page guides you into using their installer to install Nix on your system. However, this article will use [Determinate Systems' Nix installer] instead, since it lets you easily undo all changes their Nix installer makes (i.e. uninstall) with one command, and it also enables Nix flakes by default, which you'd have to enable on your own if you were using the official Nix installer instead.

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Artix Linux

If you're using a systemd-less distro, like Artix or Void, you can install Nix from their repositories, since it will come preconfigured with whatever init system you'd be using on those distros. The Determinate installer only works on distros with systemd (for a multi-user installation, which is what you want).

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