Thoughts
I almost wish I had grown up using Linux because there’s a certain beauty to just forking a new Linux distro in response to any problem.
Like a tree with hundreds of leaves.
Unfortunately, it will never be natural to me and I will always prefer collaboration on a unified community and a unified design.
This is about Aux. They’ve decided to fork but they don’t know why. They decided to fork for social reasons, and now they’re brainstorming random code changes that they can make in order to justify having a fork.
“it will not hurt to have a fork, as a learning opportunity for many”
“we could improve on things such as documentation, stabilization, etc. where there are clear pain-points in Nix”
“Aux’s decentralized and people-forward nature still gives it a reason to exist”
“keeping the project alive alongside Nix isn’t hurting anyone”
“Aux could also be a group dedicated to softening some of Nix’s rough edges, like interoperability, documentation, language support, and friendliness to new users. Almost like a dedicated project incubator.”
“A large part of this community was the centralization of everything”
“For now I think it’s best for us to continue with Aux while trying to guide Nix in the same direction.”
“Aux has value either way. maybe it becomes a more organized ‘nix-community’ sort of thing, i don’t know.”
“If Aux intentionally tries alternatives, and happens to find one that works a lot better, maybe it will get ported back to Nix”
“Flat package structure rather than a hand picked heirarchy, Package requirements”
“So like a “beta” version of Nix, where we move fast and break things just to see what sticks?”
“it would be cool if Aux was sort of like another OS to NixOS as Pop!_OS is to ubuntu.”
“Aux should eventually not depend on anything Nix.”
“Aux has value beyond just leadership changes. The discussion on threads in this forum suggesting changes to things that simply stagnated for years in the original Nix ecosystem, which everyone came to accept as the “has always been” situation, was the main reason I was excited about Aux in the first place.”