They have virtually no moderators (they all quit because they were burnt out and manipulated), filled with racist 
, and are associated deeply with anti-migrant violence and warmongering (Anduril) who hire people straight out of NixOS to build weapons to fund imperialism everywhere.
Go use Guix instead (they don’t rely on free GitHub credits or limitless AWS S3 buckets) and are objectively superior on a technical standpoint (no “experimental features” that everyone considers stable) and don’t give any shit about nonfree software unless you provide it, or only contribute to nixpkgs (collective infra) and outside projects like Lix/Snix.
Avoid the NixOS community at all costs if you value your emotional labor. Even the chuds have done this with things like Determinate Systems Nix (“Nix without the drama”) and making their own corpo shill platform called “flakehub”
Source: A former NixOS community member (me)
There is no liberalism anymore, only fascist cultural hegemony that will take over every space it can.
From what I have seen this corporation called Determinate Systems was always at the front and centre of Nix itself. I don’t know if it is because of hard work or marketing. The most popular installer for NixOS is built by them and they slowly changed its defaults to using their proprietary services (they have a proprietary daemon and that flakehub bullshit).
I am hoping Lix can be Nix for normal people.
Side note: I found Nix very confusing the one time I tried it and the determinate bullshit was definitely one of the lowest points.
Determinate Systems have been using the Nix trademark to advertise to potential enterprise clients. Unlike Lix which distinguishes itself entirely from cppnix. DT Nix is marked as the “objective” Nix and makes breaking changes from cppnix that not everyone agrees with (going all in on flakes, lazy trees breaking determinism)
Lix has repurposed the detsys installer for themselves so detsys can go fuck itself.
The NixOS foundation board is one guy. The SC (steering committee) is a libshit democracy where most volunteers don’t care or want to avoid (SC is a rubber stamp veto or pass rather than a coordinator). Nixpkgs has its own technical team and exists as an entity all into itself.
Detsys should be banned from the community but all the NixOS people are detsys people so fascist hellhole here we go!