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New to NixOS and have a question on Nix Shell (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just switched one of my systems over to NixOS from Arch and so far it seems interesting. One question I had is regarding the nix-shell. So I get the basic concept of it and that it allows creating a shell that has packages installed with that shell making ideal for dev environments. I've even seen talks where the suggest nix-shells over docker/podman, my question is how is persistent data (like databases) handled?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Honestly, I barely use it at all these days. I do most of my computing from my phone, so would be very hesitant to just blow that away on a whim like that. But on the desktop where I don't do much, it's fine.