For all the folks that can't get into Nix because they find it obtuse: Okay, fine, don't use it. Nobody is forcing you to adopt it, and moreover, we don't want

For all the folks that can't get into Nix because they find it obtuse: Okay, fine, don't use it. Nobody is forcing you to adopt it, and moreover, we don't want an influx of folks who are only embracing the situation reluctantly and cannot respect the Nix way of doing things. The top complaints I've seen in this comment section so far are about the Nix expression language. It's not appealing, hard to learn, weird, etc. Okay, good. If learning a single simple DSL is completely off-putting, then we should probably keep the DSL for a while, since it seems to be effective at weeding out folks who aren't interested in learning about the theory of package management, while allowing the rest of us to get things done. The next top complaints I've seen are about how nixpkgs is hacky, lacking, or doesn't well-support traditional UNIX tools. Well, to the extent that we can force traditional UNIX tools to respect package-capability discipline, we're doing quite well. According to Repology [0][1], nixpkgs is amongst the top 5 repositories for number of packages, number of maintainers, number of fresh packages, and percentage of up-to-date packages. Seriously, before you downvote or reply, stop and look at [1]. Look at how nixpkgs is literally off the charts compared to almost any other distro. The only close contender is AUR, which doesn't have the reproducibility or less-insecure build model of Nix. [0] https://repology.org/ https://repology.org/ [1] https://repology.org/graph/map_repo_size_fresh.svg https://repology.org/graph/map_repo_size_fresh.svg