#nix Obviously installing NixOS on bare metal is quite a commitment, but there are also easy ways to try it out before making that commitment.
- VirtualBox - You can use VirtualBox on any platform to run a virtual machine with NixOS on it.
- AWS EC2 - You can spin up a virtual machine on AWS EC2 for cheap or even free.
- Bare metal - And you can also install it on bare metal (including with dual-booting). If you have a Windows machine you can also keep your OEM licence to run Windows in VirtualBox on NixOS.
Or just try Nix - the package manager on any Linux distribution or on macOS (or WSL - though I haven’t tried that).
Simply: curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh