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OpenWarp 3 months ago

I agree on the name, but to me the word community here is used to mean it's not run by a company.

OpenWarp 3 months ago

You probably can't name a project OpenWarp for the same reason you can't name a search engine OpenGoogle, even though it's a different name to the original. In this case, it's particularly confusing because the original warp project _is_ now open source.

I'm pretty sure they show it something like once a year, and it takes two seconds to close it, if you can't spare two seconds of your life every year for something you get for free then you were never going to donate anything.

You won't donate because they will try not to discriminate when hiring? It's illegal to discriminate on things like race, sex and gender when hiring, so pretty much every company avoids it.

Why I love NixOS 4 months ago

I see your point about there being different ways to install a package, but I think I can clarify a bit by explaining how I use NixOS.

If I'm running a package on a server that means I want to install it declaratively, so I find the name of the package in Nixpkgs and put it in my `configuration.nix` file. I'm using flakes, but the configuration is exactly the same, I just put the package in the output section of the flake. Any instructions you see to install a package just boils down to finding the name of the package. To me this is as simple as finding the name of a Debian package and running `apt` to install it.

If you want additional features there are other optional ways to install packages, but these are features other distros don't offer, so if you just ignore them then there's no extra complexity compared to Debian for example.

I think you're looking at this the wrong way around. A human might know the notes of a D Dorian scale, but a computer doesn't. If you've ever selected the key of D major in any music creation software and it's shown you a stave with two sharps then the computer was using a library like this.