No, there's way too much and too deep open disagreement among Nixers for NixOS to be a cult. :) More seriously, people who run NixOS are, generally and histori

No, there's way too much and too deep open disagreement among Nixers for NixOS to be a cult. :) More seriously, people who run NixOS are, generally and historically, people who have a lot of experience with package management and people who choose their Linux distro based on the tooling rather than based on defaults. The Nix approach is conservative in some wonderful ways that are likely to appeal to longtime Linux users who appreciate the strengths of old-school system package managers as well as the defect of those systems, which makes Nix people want to cry out in response to container-based package management: > You don't have to go that far! You can have all these benefits but keep fine-grained library sharing! The choice between static and dynamic linking is a false dichotomy! because if you love what's great about traditional package management, that's really exciting.