[necovek]

This is a great point, but it's also about there being clear winners.

Wherever we had a clear winner (like Freetype for fonts, where even TeX engines converged to them, or XKB for keyboard layouts, where console layouts were converged to XKB approach, even Ubuntu was to a large extent because everyone targeted it...), something became a defacto "standard".

Now, combine lack of coordination with people recognizing there are winners, and you get the ecosysten we have today: everyone thinking they can do even better and hoping their solution is the winner to end it all.

IOW, why is NixOS the solution, and why couldn't the group behind it help evolve RPM or DEB to have comparable features?

[downboots]

Is this how an ant mill forms?