Neat! I'm not sure I would immediately benefit from this as just a NixOS user, but it's exciting to see a focus on improving UX for teams of professionals.

Determinate Nix is not a fork of Nix—it is a downstream Nix distribution. Its

Ah, I initially figured they would've forked it. Good, as it'll prevent the community in general to completely split and potentially splinter.

adding private features is lame... so they're distribution of nix has two daemons running? also lame. Very lame on the whole, great job!