<story><title>SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant</title><url>https://snowflakeos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtndew4brkfst</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a user of Nix for about seven years and finally decided  back in March, during the second rehash of $sponsor controversy, that I&amp;#x27;ll stop investing and move away from the tech as soon as I have a suitable replacement.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been critical of Nix for a variety of reasons along the way but one of those reasons is how so many people (and consultancies) seem hell-bent to set up their own little fiefdoms within the community.&lt;p&gt;The community is already niche, we certainly didn&amp;#x27;t need people purposely driving further fragmentation and incompatibility with these frameworks with bad bus factor and NIH designs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of tribalism and cargo culting around some of the other efforts in this vein, too.</text></item><item><author>binkHN</author><text>The site is bereft of details, but it appears to be related to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snowfall.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snowfall.org&lt;/a&gt;, which has a little more detail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsimpson</author><text>I believe Snowflake is one of Jake Hamilton&amp;#x27;s projects.  He&amp;#x27;s trying to make Nix more approachable through GUI tools etc.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, he&amp;#x27;s also part of the mob that chased the founder out of the Nix project and decided it should be yet another battleground for identity politics.&lt;p&gt;Like you, seeing the community entertain these stupid political fiefdoms makes me want nothing to do with NixOS.&lt;p&gt;However, I might stick with it out of laziness though until SteamOS runs on 3rd party hardware. The Jovian project is a Nix-based SteamOS clone that&amp;#x27;s been working well on my Legion Go, and I don&amp;#x27;t want to spend the time back in tinkerland finding something to replace it.</text></comment>
<story><title>SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant</title><url>https://snowflakeos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtndew4brkfst</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a user of Nix for about seven years and finally decided  back in March, during the second rehash of $sponsor controversy, that I&amp;#x27;ll stop investing and move away from the tech as soon as I have a suitable replacement.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been critical of Nix for a variety of reasons along the way but one of those reasons is how so many people (and consultancies) seem hell-bent to set up their own little fiefdoms within the community.&lt;p&gt;The community is already niche, we certainly didn&amp;#x27;t need people purposely driving further fragmentation and incompatibility with these frameworks with bad bus factor and NIH designs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of tribalism and cargo culting around some of the other efforts in this vein, too.</text></item><item><author>binkHN</author><text>The site is bereft of details, but it appears to be related to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snowfall.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;snowfall.org&lt;/a&gt;, which has a little more detail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jm4</author><text>I’ve noticed the same things, but I think it’s a symptom of Nix being so polarizing in the first place. I can’t think of another piece of software I dislike so much but I’m willing to put up with it because it’s just that good. Like I can’t wait for someone to come up with a better version. I suspect I’m not alone, and it causes some people to try to abstract away all the warts and sharp edges with these frameworks. Ultimately, it probably comes down to project leadership. There doesn’t seem to be a clear vision, consensus or anybody who can do some wrangling to get things going in a direction.</text></comment>