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<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hacker">This will give you an environment to run
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Nix and Nix Flakes commands with. You can use this to follow along with this
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series without having to install NixOS on a VM or cloud server.
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series without having to install NixOS on a VM or cloud server. This is going to
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## Installation
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It's so cool *twerks*
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It's so cool *twerks*
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good, we have just converted the system over to using Nix flakes instead of the
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classic `nix-channel` rebuild method.
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classic `nix-channel` rebuild method.
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