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NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] PastelKeystone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are forks of Nix. Perhaps you might like Lix.

[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

I haven't yet found out where its major differences lie. And it seems like they haven't taken a firm stance on flakes (yes or no). They also only forked the interpreter, not nixpkgs. A good step, but their documentation wasn't good, the last time I checked.