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Upgrade Your Development Environments with Devbox

6 points| pushtheenvelope | 2 years ago |alan.norbauer.com

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cabirum|2 years ago

> There are no VMs or containers

> an operating system (NixOS)

> Nix is there under the covers, but you don’t need to know anything about

How exactly does Nix run without using containers or VMs?

object-a|2 years ago

Devbox is using Nix the Package Manager, not Nix the Operating System. The Nix Package Manager can run on macOS and Linux without needing a container or VM, since it installs the packages natively.