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This article suffers from the same problem every nix article I read suffers from: it dives in too deep from the get go. When you sit somebody down in front of a

This article suffers from the same problem every nix article I read suffers from: it dives in too deep from the get go. When you sit somebody down in front of a computer for the first time in their life, you're not going to explain what it is composed of, what happens in when your mouse button is clicked and why Windows vs Mac vs Linux is a thing. Please, first tell me what nix is, provide me with a few commands to get me started, make a few comparisons to what the audience should reasonably know, and then make this your second or even third article on the subject.

burke 6y ago
That's kind of the approach I took in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4iFgMSK1t5BHs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4... However, there is really an important and subtle set of concepts to grasp in order to actually understand Nix, and not just mess around with a package manager tool incidentally built with it. It's fine to not understand them, but they are what this article tries to explain.
- bradly 6y ago
  FWIW... I read this article as someone who doesn't know what Nix is. Like no idea at all besides the name sounding familiar. After reading the first few paragraphs I feel I'm not the target audience for the article, which it totally fine, but based on the title of the post, I assumed I was.
  - burke 6y ago
    Yeah, it was a last-minute title change that I now regret.
    - bradly 6y ago
      Yeah, that's tough :( On the bright side... sounds like the community (or at least me) would really be into another article as a primer.
- LockAndLol 6y ago
  That's a nice playlist. Thank you. I'll try running those commands in a nix docker to follow along. Does this playlist exist by any chance on peertube?