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Indeed 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 communicator
by zitsarethecure 4y ago
Indeed 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.)