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I think that's a bit unfair to the author, whose goal is clearly to document their own setup on a didactic way rather than to say > here, paste this into your
by pxc 4y ago
I think that's a bit unfair to the author, whose goal is clearly to document their own setup on a didactic way rather than to say
> here, paste this into your terminal for the easiest way to get up and running with Nix in a fashion that's representative of community common practices
I think it's a good blog post which, carefully read, teaches lots of useful things about Nix in a pretty concise way.
It's totally fair to point out that this doesn't represent a path of least resistance to enjoying the benefits of Nix. But I don't love the way your short comment kinda frames the blog post's job as doing something for Nix, either, you know?
I don't like the idea of this guy or anyone else feeling punished or chastised when their Nix-related blog posts become visible because those posts don't function as good marketing for Nix. Having a post about your Nix journey blow up should yield encouraging responses from fellow Nix users, right?
- colordrops 4y agoThe post directly says that the easy path is more complicated, which just isn't true. It will dissuade new users from even trying Nix. That is a disservice.
- xyzzy_plugh 4y agoI don't know if it should. Like this is neat and all but it's incredibly overcomplicated and for any readers unfamiliar with the tooling (which is most) it's off-putting. If the audience was Nix users, then it would be different. It's kinda like if you bought a fancy new camera and demonstrated your process but all your photos were out of focus, framed badly and lit poorly because you're into that for some reason. Would fellow fancy new camera enthusiasts cheer? Would folks who don't know about your fancy new camera think it's a good camera?