Stockholm Syndrome

Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors.[Straight outa wikipedia. ; )]

[I personally learned about it from the show 'Money Heist']

The reason why I am talking about it is, like most of the time, I relate it to tech I use. Nix, an operating system, a package manager and a [FUNCTIONAL] programming language. It is a thing that I love as of right now in the linux/*nix world [*nix because it works on macs as well] but, today when I was chatting on niri's [it's a wayland compositor] matrix and YaLTeR who is the main developer of niri mentioned that our relation with nix is giving the syndrome's vibes.

I thought about it and it really made sense. It is difficult to use for some time until you get the hang of it. Then it gets super easy, installing packages and starting services will be a breeze. Then when it comes to ricing and things that are done with hit and trial, rebuilding the entire config each time [which takes a lot of time] gets frustrating. And don't even ask how to get something running if a package you need isn't already packaged for nix. [Which is very rare but it's not as simple as following instructions from that package's repo.]

I knew about these issues before I even felt like nix was easy [and by easy I mean, by practice not inherently easy like Ubuntu] and was something to keep using, it was kinda like a prison back then, but now I feel like I cannot use any computer without it.

[I guess it is Stockholm syndrome indeed. XD]