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Sounds like they aren't very smart if they can't elevator pitch it. Perfectly reproducible OS with easy rollbacks. OS never gets crufty, no need to reinstall e
by colordrops 4y ago
Sounds like they aren't very smart if they can't elevator pitch it.
Perfectly reproducible OS with easy rollbacks. OS never gets crufty, no need to reinstall every release version or two. Single configuration language for all apps and system components. Composable and shareble config modules at any level of abstraction, e.g. you can piece together many git repos to custom roll your OS. Isolated dependencies for every package, meaning no dependency hell (similar to docker). You can have multiple versions of everything running live. Ability to run temporary environments using the same config language.
Current OSes are like VAX or TRS-80 in comparison. Nix-likes are the future.
- kaba0 4y agoMy Litmus test for package managers is the ability to install gnome, switch it out for kde and back. (Or starting with kde). One should be able to do that without accumulating garbage (packages that are no longer used, config files, etc), but so far only NixOS passes it (and I didn’t try but assume Guix).