Does anyone else remember the little six-note jingle that would periodically chime out from behind the counter? I don’t know if it was the deep fryers or the griddle or what, but it was a long forgotten part of my childhood

“Seriously, NixOS is the new Arch when it comes to telling people you use it” …as an Arch user, I feel both attacked and intrigued.

But seriously, it’s pretty amazing how far the community has come now that having to use the package manager through the command line and editing config files is considered a significant barrier to entry. I’m interested to give it a try to see if the purported advantages with respect to reproducibility and portability are actually robust enough to suit my own use cases.