On 5/11/20 5:25 PM, Joe Golden wrote: > Anthony, > > I thought you had forsaken sweet Debbie for that new girl, Arch.
I have (or take care of) a mix of Debian, NixOS, and Arch. Debian is the standard for traditional Linux, but that model isn't tenable. Arch has a great wiki for problem solving. NixOS has the best semantics and points the way forward (mostly because it actually has semantics). It probably isn't great for non-programmers though. Nixpkgs is the modern development environment (regardless of your distro), but it is still frustrating and baroque. We are in the stone ages! Somebody needs to add strong types to Nix, ditch Posix (and everything above and below it). I'm not even sure the concept of packaging, versioning, and distributing software is a sound one. We really need to get a better handle on modularity and interfaces in human culture. The contributors to all these projects are doing great work keeping it functional so we have an infrastructure to work in while we search for the right thing. -- Anthony Carrico
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