Can someone do a ELI5 of Nix and flakes for me? I've looked at the docs numerous times and bounced back each time after I failed to understand the USP of Nix...I just don't know what's the main use case(s).
I've been meaning to write something pithy on this and this is a great spur to action. Basically Nix is something you use to build software reproducibly, that is, where you can take the same inputs and get the exact same bytes on disk every time you build it. The "software" here could be something simple-ish like a CLI tool or a UNIX utility, and it could be as complex as an entire functioning Linux system, and it co…
now that makes a lot of sense. in fact id like to have both! does this work in wsl?