Nixpkgs with OpenGL on non-NixOS

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Applications in `nixpkgs` handle OpenGL in a certain way. Using these applications outside of NixOS requires the use of a wrapper.

Wrappers

• https://github.com/guibou/nixGL

 NixGL is known to work with KVM virtio gpu accelerated graphics

• https://github.com/deepfire/nix-install-vendor-gl

 Tested with NVIDIA on some Ubuntu variants

Context

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9415