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Comment by candiddevmike

2 years ago

Nix is a declarative OS, where you describe what the OS should look like, instead of Ansible where you give the OS steps to follow. Silverblue and Nix are orthogonal aside from being Linux distributions--Silverblue is attempting to change how software is delivered using only containers on an immutable host.

If you're interested in an Ansible alternative that uses Jsonnet and state tracking to somewhat mimic Nix, check out Etcha: https://etcha.dev

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rgoulter  2 years ago

> Nix is a declarative OS

I think precision is important.

"Nix" refers to the package manager (and the language the package manager uses).

Whereas it's "NixOS" that's the OS which makes use of Nix to manage the system configuration.