From a quick glance, this is pacman with a yaml file instead of a shell script and PKGINFO (the latter was introduced for the same reason you’re doing it your way in the first place). The carcinization of package managers

For me, the factors were:

• the ability to split your system configuration into logical modules. Describe one logical thing in one file, no matter how many other factors are involved. Don’t want that thing anymore? Just don’t reference the module, and all changes will be reverted.
• easily try out new configurations and roll back, regardless of underlying filesystem, without performance penalties.
• the ability to put logic into your configuration (technically, there’s no difference between what’s typically referred to as configuration and a module in nix, though the latter usually has more “logic” and provides values with lower priority).
• as a consequence, make modules transferable between systems. There’s e.g. a Lanzaboote module that enables Secure Boot in a really smart way on NixOS, and the configuration is in my opinion easier than on any other Linux system.
• the reproducibility, from which the “easy reinstallation” follows

And from what I hear, the main selling point of NixOS is how easy it is to reinstall.

Well, that isn’t the first thing I’d mention, but whatever. Use whatever you’re comfortable with.

Also Mozilla uses it as far as I know

Did you try Nix (on Arch) or NixOS? For the latter, https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-declarative-package-mgmt explains the basic installation.

one twig at a time

I really like fish. It’s just so pragmatic, I don’t know how to describe it differently. No groundbreaking concepts (like nu or elvish), but the tools you need are right there and easily accessible with syntax that doesn’t make me scratch my head (bash).

First off, I fully agree with you. But how people are lured in is that there is no interest if you pay on time, so it’s advertised as interest-free. But obviously the business model is built upon people not paying on time, and as such one should calculate that cost into it…

TOTSUGEKI

Nah, they just had spare wafer space and wanted to fill it up with something, so they made up these instructions. No use beyond that has ever been found for them

Reminds me of VIA x86

I wouldn’t really call it a fork from my understanding, but rather a (downstream) distribution. But maybe those are just semantics

NixOS as the first Linux distro is an interesting choice, definitely not bad, but probably not what most people would go for

Sorry if I sound dumb, but which kind of program would be the one to display the output of text based interfaces, also called terminal applications, if not a terminal?

It’s so funny because you look at the guy and think he’s fit. But I saw a video of him doing pushups and it’s honestly so unimpressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGNznbJPY0 like all that gear to not be able to do 10 full straight pushups? Ok dude

The Chinese numbers regarding economical growth can’t be trusted anyways, I’m not saying they won’t be able to withstand the tariffs, but their numbers are as good as Xi wants them to be.

Doesn’t apply because Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions states that “A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war”, with a mercenary being defined as a person joining the conflict for personal gain, which these individuals seem to be from their own accounts.

I was just about to write that they should delete system32 to be able to make one and during my research I stumbled upon https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/29711-delete-system32 which I had totally forgotten

Time to sell Tesla to xAI

Do programmers actually like bash?

I’m not a programmer and I really don’t like bash. Not because I don’t like shell. In fact I do like fish as a shell. But bash always feels super weird. Unfortunately that’s kind of the compatibility baseline on Linux (I don’t think any relevant system needs strict sh compatibility). But better bash’s weird arrays than none at all, plus process substitution is handy.