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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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I left the forums, but there always seems to be drama and something going on. I didn't the community to be very helpful and inviting. It left a very bad taste in my mouth and in mostly avoid it. Now I ask LLMs to whip something up when in need it.

At least as long as you don't really need WiFi of course...

I thought that was a solved problem on Linux. Is it the reluctance to use binary blobs?

[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought that was a solved problem on Linux. Is it the reluctance to use binary blobs?

Yes. For the same reason you also don't get firmware updates on Guix. Or Firefox.