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I thought Ubuntu was one of the first. Something arround 2005. I am not sure though.

I don’t know what Maestro is referring to, but Ubuntu has really good out of the box hardware support. Also it streamlined the installation process. Start it as a live CD, look around, if you like it, install it from the live environment. Generally they improved usability.

Ok, I get that the Date API is problematic, but I wouldn’t expect anything meaningfull from new Date("not a date").getTime() anyway. Why would you in the first place?

You use the word “declare” a lot. I am not sure, but in Nix I declare the desired state of installed packages and configurations in an obscure language and the package manger takes care of that, right?
Now the module declare reasonable default configurations? Like http server starts on system start and serves on port 80?
Now you lost me at the Home-Manger. I can declare stuff in my home folder. OK, so for user-wide configuration? For packages and configuration in the user space? Or what?

Hä?

I don’t understand a thing.

“Linux is my personality.”

Yes. Sorry. I expected everyone to know this, but in hindsight this is of course a bad assumption.

Guess I must turn in my programmer-badge.

Tja.