Thor A. Hopland<p>In <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> the snow theme was used to illustrate that each flake is a perfect recreation, which didn't aptly describe this glorified build system.</p><p>The best analogy (even within the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> community) has been the cooking analogy. </p><p><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Nix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nix</span></a> are the kitchen utensils, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Nixpkgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nixpkgs</span></a> the recipes, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/NixStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NixStore</span></a> the pantry, packages ingredients, profiles are tables and derivations are dishes.</p><p>This proves that we need <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marketing</span></a>, because <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/engineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineers</span></a> suck at naming things.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/aifMfQepzjo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/aifMfQepzjo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@BrodieOnLinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BrodieOnLinux</span></a></span></p>