From my perspective he seemed to go through a lot of trauma to end up with an otherwise regular linux install (NVIDIA driver failure, KDE plasma failure, extremely slow downloads, solution speeds). Though at some point I should trial one of these declarative OSes for development be it Nix or guix.

As a recovering emacs user I had a pretty visceral reaction to seeing a “cons” cell in code. In all my ramblings about a post-syntax world and chasing higher and higher abstractions seeing the level of abstractions of “cons” cells, a linked list implementation detail, mingled in with the orchestration of a whole operating system just feels like a despicable and cruel joke. It’s like studying system design and hearing some peanut brain in the other room say something like “let’s use a for loop” - not the level that one should be thinking at.