I love NixOS and use it on my work and home machines, but I balk at seriously suggesting anyone pick that as their first choice for a stable Linux distro to move to. It's filled with sharp edges, and more to the point, the project leadership and governance seems mired in drama constantly. Not a system I would feel comfortable suggesting any org should adopt without a lot of consideration, especially if stability and long-term planning are important.

It's not just a distro. RedHat used to host quite a bit of free software projects. The mailing lists that used to be now just bounce. Sourceware has been abandoned for GitLab. But I'm not sure if everything else has succesfully migrated away. It would've meant something really good if IBM would just continue to provide services for free software, but I'm not seeing them do that so I guess that means pretty much the exact opposite.

I'll stick with Fedora and RHEL.

From what I can tell NixOS still has no support for AppArmor or SELinux.

Semi-related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841563

I'll wait until AI has translated all the nix scripts to a more user friendly language, thank you.

Last time I evaluated NixOS (Mar 2021) the project didn't care a whit about desktop security. Has that changed?

Fedora at least tries relatively consistently—and has been for decades.

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