Gentoo and Arch are built to be infinitely mod-able.

Writing a patch for a thing you use at home, and wanna share it with the world? Gentoo even makes that easier. Arch stepped away from that to rely on precompiled binaries for simplicity and efficiency’s sake, but it’s still available through the ABS and AUR with some extra steps.

Nix and Guix? I’m afraid of the dependency-redundancy involved, but organizational deployments seem like the right place for that.

Serious development without requiring a dedicated machine, where all deps are accounted for? Yeah, Nix/Guix will help quite a bit. Rapid, flexible deployment of something customized and virtualized? There too, Nix/Guix.

Need some containerization or Virtualization? Gentoo or Arch already has your back. And if that’s your primary usecase, you may prefer Qubes to anything we’ve already discussed. Then again… Gentoo could use a Qubes-porting repo maintainer.

I thought SteamOS was already out

As a Qubes user, do I span the entire graph?

Sounds like we can fuzz that for some serious vulnerabilities.

Right? Arch detects all my hardware. Its my favorite Gentoo install medium.

Fine! I don’t even know why we have an Arch Install script wiki page