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> Perhaps I'm a poor sysadmin. _everything_ locally installed makes things real weird after a while (years).

Same experience here (years). Because it’s something that creeps up over time, the problems aren’t obvious overnight.

My path was vm -> containers -> nix. With nix flakes and the direnv extension in vscode you can get a clean per-project dev environment with zero docker overhead and without dev tools cluttering up your global environment and causing issues.

This is one of the good reasons to use Qubes OS.

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