SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant

Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by ajb on Thursday August 01, 2024 @01:47AM (#41126489)

Interesting, but not convinced of its impartiality. There's a strange attempt here to link labour union organising to social activism, which is incorrect and ahistorical. And also irrelevant to nix, which is a community rather than an employer.

Individual union organisers might also be social activists, but effective union organisers know that they need to a appeal to all employees regardless of their politics. And historically unions have been just as socially unreconstructed as companies, and subject to the same process of social activists pushing for their reform.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by imp0cat on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:43AM (#41126705)

There are no impartial reporters, you gotta take it all in and decide for yourself.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by Eisenstein on Thursday August 01, 2024 @05:52AM (#41127517)

When a person is deeply involved with something that turned into a conflict and then they write their history of it, as is the case with the link above, then I would say that framing them as a 'reporter' is not accurate.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by srid on Thursday August 01, 2024 @11:14AM (#41130025)

Out of curiosity - what makes you think that the author of the link above, Chris McDonough (incidentally an author of the Pyramid Python web framework), is "deeply involved" with the NixOS conflict?

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by Eisenstein on Thursday August 01, 2024 @01:25PM (#41131412)

It is a firsthand account of someone in the community. They referenced no sources and gave a description of events based entirely on memory. They claimed their own involvement and interest in the outcomes.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by imp0cat on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:22AM (#41136318)

Right, but I don't see a better way.

Do you think an outsider (ie. an impartial person) be able to provide a better summary?

Even as outsider has to get his info somehow, usually by interviewing those involved and then filtering stuff.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by Eisenstein on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:51PM (#41140982)

If the person is involved in a situation and recounts a history from their perspective it is not reporting. It doesn't matter whether you think they did a good job or not. A combatant in a war writing their evaluation of it afterwards is not 'reporting' and neither is what he did.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by imp0cat on Saturday August 03, 2024 @03:54PM (#41148821)

So now we're comparing the NixOS community to a warzone? Is it really that bad?

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by Eisenstein on Sunday August 04, 2024 @05:47AM (#41152311)

An analogy is not a literal comparison between two things. It is a way to describe something by pointing out relationships between things and comparing the relationships. It does not literally compare NixOS with a warzone.

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Re:SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant by anon291 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:53AM (#41129077)

> Individual union organisers might also be social activists, but effective union organisers know that they need to a appeal to all employees regardless of their politics

One need only look at labor's reaction to the Teamster's president's speech at the RNC to realize that this is clearly not the case.

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