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newcomers will always have it much easier. also guix i think also reached this.

also, stagex and others probably profited QUITE A LOT from the debian efforts, because they started to go upstream and talking to developers..

just arch linux profited from debian maintainers a decade before that an debian people asking upstream to improve...

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Guix did a full source bootstrap first, credit where well due, but it does not apply to their whole tree. E.g haskell is bootstrapped with a binary, qemu includes binary firmware blobs, etc.

Guix is not fully bootstrapped or reproducible.

To your point though, the incomplete efforts of many other distros absolutely accelerated us.

that depends though, which channel you choose. And their efforts for stage0 and such also increased the possibility for all.

Yay for Free software and Opensource! we all benefit! :)

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