I like using the nix package manager in addition to whichever one comes with the system I’m using, because you can use it to craft local environments, development environments, install and experiment with things without screwing up your system, and other good stuff.

But boy does it eat disk space. I just did a hard garbage collection and it zapped almost 70 Gbytes of stuff.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci with NixOS it’s even worse since it’s for the whole system, I moved some lesser used programs to nix-shell shebang that load what they needs after you launch them.

This way if you run the collect garbage command it strip all those dependencies until you actually need them.