> Nix is one of those things that I explain and then have people telling me I'm wrong and/or an idiot because they can't believe that you can have a distributio

> Nix is one of those things that I explain and then have people telling me I'm wrong and/or an idiot because they can't believe that you can have a distribution based on building packages from source, backed by a binary cache. Hehe, same here. The number of times I'e had people tell me "uh, no, your package-manager/OS can't do that because <reasons that assume FHS dumping ground of libs/headers and global, mutable config state>" -- too many to count :). I'm still trying to find a 30 second sales pitch that manages to get through people's preconceived notions. If I can get someone to look over my shoulder at my terminal for about 5 minutes, that usually blows them away, but that's not always an option (like here in the comments section, vs coworkers at the office).