Home manager and flakes is something optional in today’s NixOS. I don’t see any obvious use for a single-user home system. Of course, many people go the flakes-setup route. NixOS has many customization options, up to and including docker installation.

Oh, it’s very simple. Home-manager is something not yet finalized, optional and unofficial. Flakes was added in Nix 2.4, but you don’t have to use it all. You don’t want to add unnecessary complications. You can do without home-manager and flakes on a single-user machine. This is just one of the system configuration options. I have tried deploying the system with flakes/home-manager, done it with docker and even with nix-env. The performance gain is not noticeable.

This is the first time in 25 years of using Linux that I’ve changed distributions.

I remember the “we are adults, not revolutionaries” entry in r/freebsd. After that, the subreddit administration decided to leave things as they were.

I don’t understand the point raised by R. Stallman about using only free software. Because for most of us the PC is a working tool, but in no way a religious toy.

Thank God I didn’t give in to herd instinct and delete my Reddit account. I did that four times in a row, and I don’t play those games anymore. I didn’t sign up for a subject that is foreign to me, especially since in my opinion the alternative apps work worse than the official one, and the lack of video downloads doesn’t bother me because I don’t watch porn. My Reddit stays the way it was. The FreeBSD and Slackware communities and a couple or three others have sane members.