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NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
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Damn right. And the Nixos community forums are full of people unwilling to accept this. They will gaslight you into thinking you're the problem. "Just do this", as I'd it's completely obvious and you're dumb for not realising that. Of course if they find out you have some ideological incompatibility with them, you're out anyway.
NIXOS really needs a fork. One that embraces or rejects flakes outright. One that stops inviting ideological battles. And one that embraces documentation.
That's impossible IMHO. Nix is fundamentally about doing things "the right way", and so there will always be disagreements about what "the right way" is. I think they are bound to be eventually settled on the best possible answer, you don't need a fork for that.
If only the battles were about software. They are about unrelated beliefs and political ideologies. I'd very much prefer ideological battles about software trust me.