thespoonbends

Clever. I like it. I've given up trying to understand where my btrfs disk usage is, and I think this will help.

What does "valid comparison" mean?

If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.

I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manages.

(I use NixOS for personal use.)

The author isn't saying that isn't important. The author is just tackling one aspect of censorship resistance.

What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?

Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.

See also that there are comparatively few maintainers, despite having a large amount of up to date packages.

This is the result of treating a distro as a software problem, versus the manual processes used in Debian, for example.

I've been using NixOS on all my devices for 2 years now, and it's great to have easy reproducible systems.

NixOS design gives it a robustness that is missing from taking a mutable distro and applying mutations (via Puppet/Ansible/Chef) to it.

+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.

I meant modal as in "if you hold down backspace, the item's text will be removed, but the item heading will remain", i.e. the headers are read-only while editing an item. evil-org-mode won't stop me pressing backspace too many times and screwing up.

Yeah, I think it could do with a modal interface: normal mode would perform tree-like operations and allow entering text. Insert mode would treat the entire file as plain text.

... there must be a mode that does this already?

I think the landing page would be more effective/descriptive if it emphasised it's role as a TODO/extensible structured document.

I use it as a personal planner for career and life stuff. Nothing too fancy, just TODOs with tags.

OP's solution sound good enough for their needs.

Solutions can always be improved, but it's not always worth doing that.