The more struggle Linux users have with snaps, flatpaks, appimages, and whatever their native package management system's quirks are, the more they will appreci

The more struggle Linux users have with snaps, flatpaks, appimages, and whatever their native package management system's quirks are, the more they will appreciate switching to NixOS one day, which IMHO is "the only sane Linux" as it's already definitively solved this problem. Join me in shaking my head at all this from the finish line... And honestly, I get it. I avoided it for years (it's 20 years old now!!) mostly because the nix language and words like "derivations" scared me*, until a year ago after hopping distros for quite a while (hmmm Elementary, Pop_OS, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch...) and after a month where I had both a bricking AND a seemingly-unsolvable interdependency build problem, I got mad and decided to take a deep breath and check out https://nixos.org/ https://nixos.org/ * here, let me immediately solve that fear: Nix interactive language tour, it's like JSON with syntax sugar and pure functions: https://nixcloud.io/tour/ https://nixcloud.io/tour/ . And a "derivation"? That's basically a "lockfile" for a particular package, if you know what that is (and you probably do). Except it existed before the concept of "lockfiles", so it got that name.