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by drakerossman 1186 days ago
What I see as a barrier for entry to Nix/NixOS is not the UX, but the available documentation, or lack of thereof. One may consider the docs being part of UX though. I am in the process of writing a book about NixOS, you may track the progress here: https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-book

The emphasis is on how to make it as practical as possible, plus cover the topics which may apply to Linux in general, and in great detail.

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Your email form to follow the book is returning errors to me. And you have no other contact channels I can find. Might want to look into that.
Thank you for pointing that out! I have a twitter with the same handle, if you would like to subscribe to that. If not - wouldn't you mind a follow-up email when I fix the subscription form?
Excited to see this being in progress. Have you checked out the docs effort spun up with the Nix Documentation team?
Yes, and was, to be quite honest, not quite impressed. They lay a foundation stone, but don't actually go that much further.