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au contraire my take on nixos is that I do understand it and therefore think it is objectively bad

and yet:

actually okay to make a serious take: probably my most steaming "nixos is bad" take isn't absolute it's that people way overuse nixpkgs service modules and treat nixos like an orchestrator when it rly rly rly isn't

more serious take: the module system used in nixos is horrible, slow, and unintuitive

depends on what you mean by container orchestration docker compose is evil, and I think you can get very far with systemd-maxxing (depending on what you're hosting). I've never actually used kubernetes so I can't speak to that

nixos ironically provides a pretty decent way to make compose less awful lol

nixos provides a decent way to make systemd less awful!

yeah, system.forbiddenDependenciesRegexes = [ "docker-compose" ];