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Usually when popular projects have this much turmoil there a fork.

Centos stream

Node to deno

Etc etc

Why hasn’t there been a fork of nixos? And the folks who want to do things in a certain politically leaning way gravitate towards that and those that don’t stay. And boom. There’s peace again.





Seriously, you'd think NixOS users would rank especially high in willingness to fork something they considered less than ideal.

Imagine Bazite's mascot made a distro, well that distro would be NixOS's fork and it's called Lix (https://lix.systems/). When they kicked Eelco Dolstra out of his project (NixOS) Lix became redundant so they stayed in NixOS. Also google is your friend.



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