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> Most users of anything are drive-by, rather casual users. On top of this, Nix could be extremely well suited to casual users. It inherently avoids most of th
by thomastjeffery 6y ago
> Most users of anything are drive-by, rather casual users.
On top of this, Nix could be extremely well suited to casual users. It inherently avoids most of the problems that plague casual users of traditional package management tools.
Unfortunately, most of the more serious Nix contributores I have interacted with are in too deep to see the usability problems. Even worse, usability issues get trivialized, and users who ask for basic improvements get talked down and told they just aren't getting the magic of Nix.
For example, the topic of versions has been argued about for over five years: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9682