> shade There is none. Nix does lots of great things, like that Firefox demo you mentioned. TFA wants bitwise identical builds, and Nix isn't great at that in

> shade There is none. Nix does lots of great things, like that Firefox demo you mentioned. TFA wants bitwise identical builds, and Nix isn't great at that in general, by their own admission. > various praises for Nix Yep, Nix is great. > downplaying TFA's wants That's worth writing somewhere probably, but not when arguing that Nix solves their problem. If their problem isn't real then potato peelers solve it just as well. Nix isn't really relevant at that point. > Nix compared to Gentoo The commonality is that neither solve TFA's problem, and neither try very hard to do so.