First of all, I'm completely new to Nix and I have no idea what I'm doing. I would like to use it initially as a more general purpose replacement of conda environments for my AI-development workflow. To begin with, I'd like to install nix package manager at my work server where I don't have root access. I tried

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon

however it tries to create /nix which I cannot do without sudo. I searched everywhere, but I don't seem to find a way to circumvent this.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm new to nix and NixOS and would like to try out the package manager first on a different host OS (I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed). I want to build KDE Plasma desktop in its own nix environment isolated from the rest of the system and be able to launch a graphical desktop session (requires integration from systemd and d-bus). Do you think that should be possible with nix?