| 14 Oct 2025 |
 Linux DADDY | Yeah, fair enough. | 14:56:50 |
 bandithedoge | i think it's still worth it to explain this in detail | 15:07:21 |
| bandithedoge | so people can at least avoid certain mistakes in the future | 15:07:48 |
 @normalcea:matrix.org | It's better to study and research on how to tailor NixOS itself to your needs rather than using a downstream distribution of NixOS | 19:46:47 |
| @normalcea:matrix.org | It'd be better if the GLF folks contributed to upstream NixOS rather than creating their own thing. | 19:47:45 |
| @normalcea:matrix.org | Like making NixOS more accessible to a french speaking audience is objectively good, but maybe contribute to the NixOS wiki first or make a pamphlet rather than an entire distribution. | 19:48:52 |
| @normalcea:matrix.org | Also they have things like "doing this as a challenge" | 19:51:04 |
| @normalcea:matrix.org | Not what you want to hear when you're trusting an operating system | 19:51:52 |
| @normalcea:matrix.org | * | 19:52:03 |
| @normalcea:matrix.org | This isn't specific to NixOS either, Arch has the same issue where there are downstream distributions that are glorified installers (all of which got invalidated by archinstall when it became mature).
I mean don't get me started on "Manjaro"
| 19:55:46 |
| 15 Oct 2025 |
|  Andrew Zah changed their display name from andrewzah to Andrew Zah. | 09:29:43 |
 davidak | a nixos distribution could just be a profile inside nixpkgs that people can use as a starting point. what you get using the graphical installer is similar. you can just select the desktop instead of us having to maintain multiple distributions like Ubuntu | 16:27:24 |
 Albert | ^ Why I adore NixOS so much | 16:28:50 |
| Albert | All my machines are in a single flake.
Some run KDE, some run Hyprland, some have containers and run Docker, others run HAProxy and Wireguard. | 16:29:27 |
| Albert | It's great. All from one flake! | 16:29:39 |
