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Probably related to the fact that binaries you compile yourself are guaranteed to match the source code. There was a controversy with xz recently...

The only packages where this matters, really, are huge projects like Firefox, Chromium, and the kernel, though even kernels are run through in 30...

I've used it as my primary, unironically, for 15 years. Before that I was on a Hackintosh (10.6) for ~4 years and before that I had been on Gentoo...

Imo Gentoo is easier to use than nix. At least it's easier to get started. Depending on how deep you want to go with nix at least. Now days...

It just works 99% of the time, I'll occasionally find a package breaking while building but it is usually fixed quickly upstream or I need to make...