You got a new laptop for Christmas. Suh-weet!

You absolutely want to build software with it, which means setting up your local dev environment. Easier said than done! Experience has taught you that setting up a local dev environment is a Sisyphean enterprise: things always break, so you find yourself repeating the same motions over and over again.

This time, however, you’ve got #Flox. And that makes all the difference.

https://flox.dev/blog/setting-up-a-new-laptop-made-easy-with-flox/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025q4_tofu_awa_laptop_devs_floxcli_gl%20&utm_content=blog

Layering and composition are two powerful ways to create and share #Flox environments.

✅ Layering gives you flexibility in emergent, unpredictable situations.

✅ Composition gives you reproducibility, auditability, and predictable behavior at runtime—at the cost of some upfront design and testing.

Read the full guide for examples, pros & cons, and practical workflows 👉 https://flox.dev/blog/layering-and-composing-flox-environments/

We’ve been talking a lot about Build & Publish lately but here’s something for those who may not know #Flox yet.

In this quick demo video, Ross shows what that looks like:

- Installing tools
- Spinning up a dev environment
- Keeping everything portable, reproducible, and easy to share

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aidi5svDml8

How many tools do you use to manage your tooling?

#Flox gives you a new way to work with packages and build reproducible development environments without using containers.

✅ It gives users transparent, no-hassle access to the tools, files, and environment variables in their local systems.
✅ It enables teams to create portable, reproducible development environments that behave the same way anywhere, taking advantage of available OS, CPU, and even GPU capabilities.

https://youtu.be/aidi5svDml8

NixOS 98: Flox vs Devenv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYw7cEG8hs

#Nix #NixOS #Flox #Devenv