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  • My immediate thought was: why not NixOS as a base? Building KDE is such a nightmare that if they had to deal with it themselves on NixOS, it would help them clear up their dependencies. Right now it’s such a big mess of unnamed and implicit dependencies that exposing it to the team would also show them how to cut down on them.

    My hope was also that if the KDE team were invest in a NixOS offshoot, that the OS would finally get proper GUIs or integrations into existing GUIs like Discover (why not Diskover?) Or the system settings and other config management.

    But, to be fair, I could understand if they considered it, took one look at the documentation and noped out.

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  • Your post is nearly the epitome of Chesterton’s Fence. You don’t seem to understand why Rust looks the way it does, works the way it does, why it exists, what it’s used for, and what problems it solves, but you’re very happy (or not, which is probably why you wrote this post) to trash it.

    There are many responses to your comments that explain things quite well, yet, from what I see, you do not seem to concentrate on those.

    And what I quoted is just the icing on top. It looks very much like you have one style of programming and approaching problems (the PHP style of “if it runs, it’s good”) and apply it to every problem. You have used a hammer your whole life and every problem looks like a nail. You can build a good many things with duct tape, nails, and a hammer. It might all do the job well enough for your standards or purposes and at times it might even be the perfect tool for a task.
    But now you’ve discovered a screw driver, tried to hammer in a nail, and gotten quite frustrated that it didn’t work well. Instead of considering using a screw, you have tossed aside the screwdriver and decided to yell expletives into the ether.

    The ether has responded with explanations, but you have chosen to ignore them all and staunchly hold on to your “screwdrivers are shit” conclusion. Had you said “I’m just blowing off steam, don’t take this seriously”, that’s what it would’ve been. However, you seem quite serious. Or, as I said before, you’re just trolling.

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