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One big issue with the NixOS wiki is that the maintainer of the web server is unresponsive for a long time [0]. Therefore, the wiki software is really out of date and using the page editor is a real pain in the butt [1]. I tried to write more for the wiki while learning things about NixOS. But it's so annoying to make changes that I eventually gave up. I really like NixOS and Nix in general, it just lacks a central and organized, community maintained documentation like the Arch wiki. So, I hope either the maintainer will eventually become available again (unlikely IMO) and update the server, or we could mirror the current wiki on a new server. [0] - https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/46 [1] - https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/40

Mmmm, no. Nix is not a SaaS that builds your snapshots that you have to pay for (or that "they need to monotize", what's wrong with people?), it's a whole ecosystem ranging from a full OS (NixOS) down to a package manager (Nix Package Manager) and programming language (just "Nix). Not sure what needs clarification here, it's pretty up-front about it's mission and features already. > Your snapshots and abilities to rollback etc are likely to be dependent on their storage servers Not sure where you get this from. Snapshots are stored locally unless you specify otherwise, and then you'll get to chose whatever storage servers you want to use. Absolutely no "hidden" costs with Nix as it's a MIT licensed project and I don't think they even offer any "value-added" services nor paid customer support. Edit: reading the issue you just created (http

It looks impressive but it isn't clear how much you have to pay for services from them. It isn't free and you aren't in control. Your snapshots and abilities to rollback etc are likely to be dependent on their storage servers. They certainly should monetise, but not making it clear is what I object to. I've raised as an issue for clarification in their community wiki. https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/34