Lix - a new fork of Nix

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lix.systems

https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108881500298

~https://chaos.social/@ktemkin/112392108893774195~

This isn’t just a fork of Nix—this is the work of a team of 10+ people near-constantly since early February. (Technically, us too — but our task is really just enabling others.)

Some serious work has gone into ensuring it improves on upstream without having the regressions that have plagued them last three major versions!

And, since this will matter to some — it’s not a project of the NixOS foundation, but an independent organization that takes its responsibility to its community seriously.

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I use NixOS, and I'm confused. Why is a fork of Nix necessary? I'm out of the loop.

edit: currently looking at lix.systems and aux.computer for info.

So... should I just switch to Lix? Like are there any problems I should expect?

edit 2: i tried switching to it, but got an infinite recursion error in my flake.nix, and honestly i don't feel like dealing with it right now.