Hi, Slight ramble ahead.
I've managed to get several people to try Nix after constantly raving about it and all but one had a bad experience. The reason AFAICT is that they first check for nix in their default package tool (apt-get, pacman, ...). These packages install nix-* binaries but they don't help with the single or multi-user /nix setup. So the first thing they see is "error: creating directory ‘/nix’: Permission denied". I can think of two solutions 1) make the packages set up nix correctly so nix-env is usable out of the box and 2) Remove all custom packages and tell people to use the installer script. I know 2 is quite radical but to me it seems preferable to leaving people who aren't necessarily great unix admins googling for an error with no solution on the first results page. ~ [1] https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_Nix_on_Debian
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