NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
NixOS doesn&#x27;t have directories like &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin, &#x2F;etc, etc. This defeats the traditional `make &amp;&amp; make install` path; instead you have to build a nix package, and be familiar with stdenv.<p>My concern is that it would be more difficult to install software that doesn&#x27;t have a nix package built (in particular, from git repo trunks), and also more difficult to have confidence that the software I write would work on other Linux distros. For this reason I chose Arch over NixOS.<p>In practice NixOS users find these to be significant issues? How do you deal with them?