context: [So it is that time every few years that I go #distro shopping for a new /home.
I went from slackware to debian to xubuntu to manjaro to endeavorOS (both based on Arch, btw), and tasted #nixOS but didn't come to the point of making it my everyday personal laptop distro.]
I'm about to try moving to nixos as my main everyday distro. Any incompatibility or significant hassle I should be aware of?
And mostly important: as recently some BDFL and main devs in FLOSS have revealed themselves as suprematists or fascists, I am asking #fedimind if there's some ugly past about nixos and what are the chances they fascistify given the governance and dev power dynamics.
Joe Vinegar 🏳️🌈
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