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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by pxc on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:06PM (#34495796)
> The daemon needs to be run as root root in a standard multi-user install which rules out HPC-like envs where Nix would actually shine.

That's an important issue! For those who haven't seen the recent work on it, check it out below.

Théophane Huffschmitt is working on it here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5380

and here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5226

tracking issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5208

NixCon 2022 talk: https://youtu.be/Gw3LtgbKouc

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