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> Is NixOS a cult? Rather than being a cult in itself, there's a crowd of very vocal fanboys similar to the RIIR stike force. Pestering people with "why don't
by goodpoint 4y ago
> Is NixOS a cult?
Rather than being a cult in itself, there's a crowd of very vocal fanboys similar to the RIIR stike force. Pestering people with "why don't you use $thing" is not good advocacy.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoPoint of order: I didn't say "you should use nix", I said "oi, nix is actively doing that thing you said was impossible", and suggested that they should do that themselves.
- goodpoint 4y agoI didn't say "you are acting like a fanboy", I said "some vocal minorities are fanboying" and suggested that they should not do it.
- zitsarethecure 4y agoIndeed the communication factor is critical. I've been around long enough to see plenty of good tech fail simply because backers are not very good communicators and I think the top level comment is a great example of this. I am just a lowly end user, I just want to be able to install and run the latest version of PrusaSlicer or Zoom on whatever Linux distribution I am using. I don't obviously see how to do that with nix and I don't really want to spend the time to figure it out, while the folks behind flatpak seem to have made it a trivial experience.
- pxc 4y ago> I don't obviously see how to do [install the latest version of Zoom] with nix and I don't really want to spend the time to figure it out nix-env -iA nixpkgs.zoom-us or if you prefer, nix profile install nixpkgs#zoom-us That said, the Zoom package in Nixpkgs is (IIRC) actually extracted from the upstream Snap distribution of Zoom, and the Flatpak version of Zoom is actually the one I last used on NixOS. :) (For proprietary software like Zoom, I think Flatpak might be preferable even to many Nix users like me.)