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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility.

I think a lot of people do care about it, just not under that name. But I think a lot of users asked themselves at least once "what did I do back then to achieve X". Not in that the whole system is reproduced 1:1, but certain aspects. That's something much easier to answer with nix.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I think the average user only cares about that if they have to do it again. Or to help a friend perhaps. But then the answer would be "use nix" and that's not super helpful if you're offering support. 😆

    I've had to go back to investigate certain things when installing a new system but it's all in the Arch wiki for me, and sometimes there's even newer and better ways of doing stuff after a while so just keeping my system set once and for all might not be what I really want anyway.

    Change is life. 😌

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