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by ronef 222 days ago
Going to sound weird but with both my hats on I super appreciate this perspective. I can only speak to some areas of Nix and Flox obviously and I know folks are looking into doing this to your point a whole lot better. Zooming in way more into solving for us that just want to run and fix it fast when it breaks.

Also, think it's a huge ecosystem win for FreeBSD pushing on reproducibility too. I think we are trending in a direction where this just becomes a critical principle for certain stacks. (also needed when you dive into AI stacks/infra...)
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rootnod3 222 days ago
Yes, but I also think that the BSDs are the last bastions you will find any AI usage in. And I for one am grateful for that.

I like it when my system comes with a complete set of manpages and good docs.

But you mentioned Flox, which I didn't even know about. First I thought that's what they renamed the Nix fork to after the schism, but now I see it's a paid product and yuck...just further deepens my believe in going more bare bones manual control, even if sometimes bothersome.

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