Seems Determinate Systems are the true murderers of the once open community that was #nix. Since i have last looked they have:

1. Effectively Hard forked Nix into their own Determinate Nix, with a pinky promise to upstream everything, which does not seem to have been done at the scale originally promised. https://determinate.systems/blog/announcing-determinate-nix/

2. The nix installer has been reworked to not support the original nix project, only this non-standard Determinate Nix version for "their consumers".

3. Blaming upstream for not doing it their way with flakes. Effectively acting as flakes will one day become only supported by their Determinate Nix fork in the future. https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1j4fhgf/determinate_nix_30_featuring_stable_flakes/mg8e5w7/

4. Forked nixpkgs and (mis)used the MIT license to create a proprietary fork with SBOMs and CVE monitoring. Notably maintaining security patches for packages outside of nixpkgs, effecitively commercializing the open project nixpkgs for their profit. https://determinate.systems/secure-packages/

Ah well, I wont be getting back into Nix anytime soon. Maybe the community is largely ignoring DetSys, but given that still core people of the nix community work there, the actions of this one company destroys the trust in nix as a whole.