NixOS is the best linux back-end ever designed. But it can't become mainstream without a front-end

Ah, brilliant - Balena has improved my life a fair bit, but it does have some annoyances … if nothing else, having customized docker daemon running all the time takes a big chunk of the memory of smaller devices!

vcsode uses json, which is simple key-value pairs.

nix is a turing-complete programming language, so these GUIs will never work for it.
nixos is a distro for people who want to write code to configure their system(s), simple as.

that will never be beginner-friendly because most people do not want to write code - and that is okay, there’s so much else out there for them to try should they so desire.

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