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NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

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"All the enterprise Linux vendors are working away on this. The goal is to build operating systems as robust as mobile OSes: "

Ah, fuck me! There are few computers I hate as deeply and genuinely as my Samsung Galaxy 8 cell phone. It should be SUCH a cool and capable device - it's bloody tiny, has scads of memory and CPU power, and a really great screen. But instead, it's a locked-down piece of corporate vomit, designed for people too stupid to count with both their fingers AND toes, and with all the user-customization capabilities of a maximum-security prison cell. I really, earnestly hope the major distros aren't aiming to take Linux in that same brain-dead direction of top-down neanderthalism. That would be the greatest shame of all. As if systemd (Fuck systemd!!!) wasn't bad enough...

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