Honestly hard to say. Very much have respect for existing ubiquitous tools and for their copyleft and open source advocacy but they come across as very ‘elitist’ and reluctant to move to more common open source patterns (for better or worse). Like it seems that contributing to a GNU project seems challenging in needing to get involved with mailing lists and emailing patches etc. Although it seems GUIX uses Codeberg so maybe that stance has softened a bit.

Oh absolutely. It wasn’t even close to being sparkling chaos, let alone Agile. What we had as ‘sprints’ would be more accurate as Epics. The whole thing was insane but they stuck with the terminology…

We had a bunch of simultaneous ‘sprints’ that went on for over a year…

Ugh yeah this is a real point of annoyance for me, we have the XDG basedir spec for a reason but everything just ignores it. I’d settle for even the config part, let alone state, data dirs and the rest. Just throw it all in home…