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So essentially this seems like another implementation of what toolbox and distrobox is implementing.

With the downside of not having the option to select a Linux distro and being locked to the nixpkgs repositories?

No, it uses native Nix directly on your machine - Linux, Mac, or Windows. Its integration with Docker is that it can _build_ Docker images from the Nix packages in your "devbox".

It's the same abstraction layer though. The implementation for all three is bound to be different.

I'm assuming for windows it only works in WSL2? cause last time I checked nix wasn't compatible with native windows development, sadly

Yeah I assume so too, but I'm not sure.

Native windows support is or at least was being worked on.

Wsl/nix should work.

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