subtooting, NixOS 

You know, if you want the build system to keep using Nix instead of Lix, maybe you should be spending your time fixing Nix bugs instead of pearl-clutching on the issue tracker about how unfair it is that they've switched to a fork that actually works?

subtooting, NixOS 

Or alternatively, y'know, actually fixing those governance issues in Nix that people have been telling you about for half a decade

subtooting, NixOS 

"But it takes time to fix governance issues! We can't do that overnight!"

Okay, so then how did Lix successfully avoid these issues in a fraction of the time? Do you think that perhaps the problem lies with your perspective on the issue, and not with the proposed fix?

subtooting, NixOS 

To make it a little more explicit: Nix follows (a variant of) a 'benevolent dictator' model, whereas Lix follows a 'collective decisionmaking' model.

One of those models is remarkably improving the quality of the software right now, and it sure isn't the 'benevolent dictator' one.

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NixOS, FOSS ideology 

This whole thing is also an excellent example of how, despite the insistence from fossbros, "you can just fork it" doesn't magically eliminate the politics and the social factor in FOSS, by the way.

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