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NixOS forked (aux.computer)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I disagree with @[email protected] (sorry!) - the biggest issue right now is that package maintainers are leaving in droves - at least 15 contributors left a few days ago, a number which has likely increased these past few days - and will continue to increase. I think the only people left will be the ones who support Eelco and the toxic culture brewed by him.

What this means is that you risk your packages getting out of date, including slow delivery of security updates (which was already an increasing concern, due to the way the Nixpkgs build system worked). Worst case scenario, some (many?) packages may never even get an update.

So now's definitely NOT a good time to switch, and in fact I'd also urge existing users to look at other distros, at least temporarily until this whole thing settles down.

[–] Shareni 8 points 8 months ago

I disagree with @[email protected] (sorry!)

Don't say sorry for making an actual argument, or are you some Canadian lol?

at least 15 contributors left a few days ago

According to this list there are 3470 maintainers. Were those 15 doing so much work to warrant calling it the end of days?

What this means is that you risk your packages getting out of date, including slow delivery of security updates

A possible delay for some package updates vs certainly outdated packages in my native Debian. Not really a choice IMO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I've been tempted for a while to switch from good old reliable Arch (btw) to NixOS, but now I'm glad I procrastinated and just ran it in a little VM specimen jar instead.

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 8 months ago

I guess it depends on what you're planning doing with NixOS or Aux. I wouldn't use it for anything new and critical. I'd figure out a mitigation strategy if I were relying on it for something critical.

But for experimental purposes, neither option seems like a bad call.