@monk So it's a solution looking for problems no person has ever had, evangelised as the second coming of Jesus by people with the pathological need to feel superior to and smarter than other *Nix users. Got it.

@monk Why would anyone want that other than for bragging rights?

@monk Hm?

I don't get the hype around #NixOS.

All of the problems it is said to solve seem like non-issues in the first place to me?

• It breaks less often because of some special package management system, without the disadvantages of milestone releases like Debian. Okay, but I never had any of my rolling-release systems break? My #ArchLinux has been going strong for five years, and if something does happen, there's a news post with a simple fix within the minute.

• Rollbacks: Why would I want that? I have never once found myself in the situation where I wanted to roll back to a certain previous version of my packages. Related to how my system hasn't ever broken beyond repair, I guess.

• Reproducible builds: Why would I want that? I have one (1) computer and one (1) laptop. Both have different use-cases and therefore different setups for a reason. If I want to reinstall my system entirely, that usually means I don't want to reproduce my old build but instead try something new. Otherwise I'd keep my existing setup. And if I'm in a professional setting where I'd need a ton of identical setups, then I'd surely use a more popular distribution with professional support contracts like Red Hat.

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