i find myself conflicted: - on the one hand you have the general warm fuzzy feelings associated with a considerately-designed graphical tool to lower a barrier

i find myself conflicted: - on the one hand you have the general warm fuzzy feelings associated with a considerately-designed graphical tool to lower a barrier to entry - and the fact that this tool was as trivial to implement as a cursory glance at the repo suggests vindicates the whole guix/nix declarative packaging idea. the ease with which ten lines in a text editor turned a new piece of software into a first-class citizen on my system was the thing that hooked me on nix forever but that's just it: is this really lowering the barrier to entry all that much? the audience guixsd/nixos is courting is someone sick and tired of managing config files strewn across the filesystem. by definition that is someone who knows how to operate a text editor, at which point "look at how few keystrokes/memorised file paths you need on our system vs debian/arch/whatever to gain the same thing" feels like enough of a sales pitch in terms of attention economy, this is like going "what costs you a dollar on debian costs you a dime here... hey check this out now it's 9 cents if you want. neat, huh?"