I would want to stay a massive software nerd and a guy (gender neutral “guy”) who cares about privacy and uses mostly free (“free as in freedom, not free beer” - Richard Matthew Stallman) software

A what now

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Pretty sure it’s because NixOS is reproducible. You can send your configs to your friend and they’ll get a file-for-file identical copy of NixOS to yours (obviously except the user files)