Personally, I’m looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE’s port to Qt 6.

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    from which interesting derivatives will show up.

    I don’t think that will happen and hope it won’t because NixOS can handle the usual preferences people might have internally.

    Don’t like glibc? pkgsMusl is the entire package set but with musl instead of glibc.
    Want static compilation? pkgsStatic.
    Afraid of systemd? Well okay, we don’t have that right now but I don’t think anyone would be opposed to optional support for worse service managers. It’d just be an opt-in toggle that we could support with enough people interested in it.

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      Nah, people always want to put their own spin on things and I welcome the diversity.

      Arch can bring in all the necessary packages yourself, but Garuda exists and people enjoy using it. Horses for courses.

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        Garuda only exists because the only way to distribute a set of default configuration in regular distros is to create a whole new distro/installer. We don’t have that problem in NixOS because all configuration is declarative and composable.

        In the NixOS world, Garuda would be a NixOS base config which users would import in their own config and extend with their own configuration. You’d still be using NixOS though.

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          If you’re packaging enough changes that somebody would say it’s a different experience, calling it the “X configuration” vs “X distribution” based on how it’s packaged is just splitting hairs.