Because what you want exists and has a thriving community, and a package set that outclasses, well, statistically every other package manager in existence.

I swear, it's a daily occurrence for me to see software engineering challenges posited here as damn near impossible that Nix has been solving for over a decade.

What if you could run a single command and have exact insight to the source you're using for every single package on your system with the context of the dependency graph it exists in.

I cannot wait for this wave to crash and for people to realize how much engineering effort is reduced by using Nix. And that all of these things they know they want for years, already exists. But hey, the syntax takes time to get used to and how do you compare that against the countless blog posts and hours and institutional knowledge you need to actually use docker properly. And then later on some Go-based SBOM tool made by a VC-backed startup that fundamentally still does an inferior job to Nix. Sigh.

Well anyway I guess nix will keep being used by hedge funds, algorithmic traders, "advanced defensive capabilities" companies, literal (launched, in space) satellites, wallet manufacturers, etc, while everyone else listens to the syntax decriers.

So, really, pretty laughably not comparable. And to directly answer your question, the answer is duh, no.

I'm sure you're equally upset about young kids being put in beauty pageants or the countless (Republican) states that have recently defended child marriage. Right? Right?

I'm sorry, but Meta knows why "adult-run minor accounts" make them revenue. Fucking disgusting. I'd love to see some discovery on their internal metrics and how they build out that feature to drive up engagement from these horny creeps.

And yeah, I guess if you don't care about tens of thousands of men perving on your daughter every day, upload away! Good thing men are never incredibly harassing or anything.

There's videos online of me doing stuff that would probably end my father's heartbeat in about 10 seconds. I'm not a prude. I'm someone that wishes people would think instead of playing this surprise Pikachu face constantly.

This general ignorance of long-term consequences, and this behavior of men... Neither are limited to Americans. I mean, I wish, it'd be an easy solution for me to avoid both, but alas.

This, like every other problem with pervasive brainrot technology, and hell good old fashioned ways to shut a brain off, will be talked about for years. Nothing will be done. Things in 10 years will feel normal and be unimaginable now. Thus is humanity for the 30 years I've been here so far.

Don't. Put. Your. Kids. On. The. Internet. I'd say "don't put unwitting strangers on the internet" too, but it's less targeted unless you're stalking a stranger, and I suspect too many HNers are Instagram users for that to be popular.

Also this is your too-often reminder that child beauty pageants are still popular in many places. Anyone taking attendance at those? Seriously, the status quo and what people are accustomed to biases people's norms in extreme ways and we just never seem to put that in context.

My point being, we have fucking pageants for children to get dolled up and pranced about for adults to watch, and here we are, off to the next horror-porn-horror travesty we all know is likely going to continue slowly getting more and more wack, as the norms shift.

I hate how 99% of the planet has no ability to consider long-term reprocussions of decisions, or worse, are incentivized to self-deluded about them. "Let's appeal to things that work in marketing and put our teenage daughter on the internet". Sounds like a god damn comedy sketch.

But also, I'm insanely frustrated that (1) Google doesn't allow USB Gadget mode to do this from stock Android (2) the app that appeared to work for LineageOS/rooted devices is abandonware.

There's no good reason why your phone can't serve up ISOs with gadget mode.

I already travel with my ancient Pixel 3a as a backup (which has come in handy, clumsy me). It would be slick to have that as a portable ISO host, and backup phone. (Ignore the USB2 USB-C port, it's fine.)

It also highlights why I think this is nearly intractable. Distributed, censorship-resistant designs lend themselves to resiliency and permanence. I just have this gut feeling you don't get both. And frankly I think the people trying to shove the cat back into the bag are a bit naive.

But... Are you implying that random people being unwittingly exposed to CSAM is somehow going to cause a reduction in production of CSAM? Because good lord, I'm not sure I can understand that train of thought.

Like you, I find the "hopping" nature of Linux enthusiasts to be exhausting. it's almost always nearly the same fucking bits at the end of the day. Great, you know how to use the package manager? Everything you like about NewShinyDistro's defaults can probably be hadon the distro you're on already.

Christ maybe the better approach is my other idea - customnixos.org. You always get nixos, but you get to pre-pick the desktop environment, theme, background, etc, and then it slips you an iso with those options set.

Yeah, let's imagine how they react to their entire system being broken and some rumblings of "well maybe if you change time". Yeah, sure, okay, I'm sure a user that can't install a package will be able to handle that. /s

Maybe it's simply because I AM a distro maintainer, that I just roll my eyes at all of this. What's pre-installed is so trivial it's almost nothing to me when I think about why I chose my distro. How fast can they react to security reports? Are they abreast of developments in the Linux ecosystem and adjusting and experimenting with defaults? Really truly? Because even in (my distro) where I can tell you the names of owners of specific areas, there's still some gaps we could cover better.

The curse of knowing too much. Or maybe my empathy meter is way off tonight. Idk.

Fuck. No.

I'm sorry but if the way we handle accessibility of Linux to non-Lijux-aware folks is to just push them to the latest flavor that has the most shit crammed in, well, I'm not sure what we expect the outcome to be.

I will never stop being annoyed at conversations around distros. Ever.