@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social @0x7700e6@mastodon.catgirl.cloud Probably because it's easy to deploy in a similar way to how Windows deployment software works, except it's actually built into the operating system. You can just flash a base Nix OS image to the internal hard drive & then copy one configuration file & the operating system sets itself up exactly how you have specified all on its own.