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I don't think it is confusing. There is a package manager Nix, and a distro built around it, NixOS. And the package repository Nixpkgs. What is confusing howev

• zzzeek 5y ago
  in my experience (writing SQLAlchemy) it's good to give all of the "<Brandname>" titles a suffix. That is, instead of having "Nix" and "Nix OS", you would have, "Nix Package Manager" and "Nix OS". I had *exactly* the same experience with SQLAlchemy. for years and years, it was, "SQLAlchemy" and "SQLAlchemy ORM". The online discussion was always the same: "ORMs, I like ORMs, I dont like ORMs, blah blah blah" and constantly trying to say, "SQLAlchemy has a whole non-ORM part too!" and this was only vaguely received. Problem was 90% solved by *changing the name*, introducing the new term "SQLAlchemy Core": SQLAlchemy Core SQLAlchemy ORM now when people talk about SQLAlchemy, you will regularly see discussions with "I only use Core, not ORM" or "did you try that with Core?" There are still people who think SQLAlchemy is in its entirety an ORM but it's a vastly thinner slice of less engaged users -the path to understanding the different components is helped enormously by qualifying them all.