Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
by monocasa on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:18PM
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NixOS gets you there I think. They deviate from the standard hierarchy to keep each application in its own directory that could be installed on it's own drive if need be, then with symlinks back to the main tree for legacy purposes. Like /bin/sh would be a symlink to /nix/store/s/5rnfzla9kcx4mj5zdc7nlnv8na1najvg-bash-4.3.43/bash but only because there's enough legacy out there that expects /bin/sh to be runnable verbatim.
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Re:DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:45PM
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Now if only I didn't need to learn a new language in addition to all the OS tooling to use NixOS.
This is what AppImage gets that the rest of Linux doesn't seem to: if an application is a single file/folder, you don't need anything more complicated than a file manager to manage it.
P.S.: after a quick glance at some documentation, I don't see any mechanism that would allow me to install nix packages to arbitrary locations anyway.