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I'm really interested in the possibilities that are opened up by package managers such as Nix and Guix. Atomic upgrades/rollbacks, side by side installation of

I'm really interested in the possibilities that are opened up by package managers such as Nix and Guix. Atomic upgrades/rollbacks, side by side installation of libraries and apps, multi-user support... It's just a shame that the maintainers of Nix think that labelling it as "The Purely Functional Package Manager" is the best way to sell it. Same goes for Guix, "The Emacs of Distros" - they say that like it's a good thing.

mbrock 10y ago
They're not trying to sell it. They're hackers who use it for their own purposes and are probably more interested in attracting other hackers who can help out than they are interested in pretending to be a consumer OS or actually being one with all the support and polish and work that entails. Maybe later someone will make the Ubuntu of Nix. The Emacs of distros sounds exactly what I'd want by the way. What's wrong with that?
- ajdlinux 10y ago
  Fair call, they are hackers who use it for their own purposes. I'd just love to see more open source hackers start with the mindset of advancing user experience from the very outset.