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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Then you look into it a bit more and the story changes to "oh actually you need to enable this experimental feature to get better reproducibility".

This unfortunately gets misunderstood a lot, mostly because of the stupid flake hype. You do not need flakes for reproducibility, Nix comes with a fetchTarball builtin function which allows you to pin a specific Nixpkgs commit and output hash.

You're right though, I agree on basically every point (including the part about flakes).