A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.
I think the same reason people don’t like NixOS is why it might be good for enterprise / government.
For personal use, it can be a pain to learn and configure everything the way that you want it. There is not as much value in having it be reproducible if you’re the only person using it
For enterprise use, the IT team can set it up and have it work the same way across every machine.
I think the same reason people don’t like NixOS is why it might be good for enterprise / government.
For personal use, it can be a pain to learn and configure everything the way that you want it. There is not as much value in having it be reproducible if you’re the only person using it
For enterprise use, the IT team can set it up and have it work the same way across every machine.
Plus it’s kind of immutable, so presumably pretty hard to break for regular office people who aren’t techy.
There’s some Anti AI grumbling about Nix too 3 weeks ago over this:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md