The Future of Configuration Files

Nix has been around for 20 years and was designed to solve the problems that we're encountering today, like 15 years ago. The worry I have is my eyes glaze over at the point when you talk about a configuration file. We came a long way with Ubuntu in that you put a USB key in and you get a graphical installer - it inverted commas just works kind of thing. And what I wanted to do was create the Ubuntu like experience. You know, something that uses boot into it feels comfortable there in command of their own destiny. But they haven't been handed a time bomb, which they can break. So here is the raw ingredients. It's not an operating system