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open letter to the NixOS foundation
(save-nix-together.org)
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Fork it, maintain it, and move on. RHEL was forked into Alma/Rocky when the original provider's goals, and their community's goals were not in alignment. So far, the forks have improved the ecosystem over all. Fork Nix/NixOS and build the community. Its no different than the Debian derivatives like Mint or Ubuntu.
Some have moved to Guix, just like me. The Guix maintenance cycle is slow, but that's okay for me. They have recently released GNOME 44, and they're also working on other infra, so the development is nice. The community is also not toxic.