I love with Nix that I can use programs without "installing" them by using `nix shell`. I don't have to worry about a bunch of stuff cluttering my system. They'll automatically get cleaned up after a while when I do GC.

My recent use-case was that I wanted convert a markdown file to PDF so I used pandoc and tried a few different LaTeX PDF engines. I don't even remember the different packages I tried out, but I didn't have to!

❤️ Nix

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