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Nix and NixOS are almost too good to be true. Isolation, libraries coexisting, transparent binary cache and software that just works. Not works on my machine, just works. But is that always the case? Or... Did we manage to get ourselves into... impurities? Join us for a discussion about libGL and find out what anomalies lurk in the dark depths of our operating systems.

[Nix is a lie, and that’s ok | Farid Zakaria’s Blog](https://fzakaria.com/2026/03/07/nix-is-a-lie-and-that-s-ok)
[Help understanding the libGL ABI problem and possible solutions - Help - NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/help-understanding-the-libgl-abi-problem-and-possible-solutions/42022?u=mightyiam)
[Spack](https://spack.io/)
[nix-community/nixos-facter: Declarative hardware configuration for NixOS](https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-facter)

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Determinate Nix ad transcript:

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The libGL Anomaly

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The libGL Anomaly