🦊 OneRedFox 🦊

That’s a cringe and spineless move to see from systemd.

Been using RSS again since ditching corporate social media. The sites with full text RSS feeds are especially nice, since reading it in your feed reader means not getting subjected to the endless stream of popups and nag-screen bullshit, which is increasingly important with the proliferation of frontend frameworks like React that won’t load any content without first enabling JS for the site.

NixOS is one of the few distros that legitimately offers something different. Some nice things:

• The entire OS install is managed through config files, so instead of dealing with a billion shitty DSLs, you only deal with one.
• Because of the above, builds are also reproducible.
• Because it ditches the FHS for the Nix store, you can do things like install multiple versions of the same library side-by-side, which is impossible with traditional Linux package management.
• It has the largest package repository of any Linux distro.
• Setting up dev environments is really nice because with Nix it’s like the entire OS has VirtualEnv.
• Because of the above, “it works on my machine” is an excuse of the past.

It’s very impressive and is a welcome innovation to the Linux ecosystem. Now if only they could improve the tooling and documentation.