615: 25.05 Reasons to NixOS

With NixOS 25.05 around the corner, we sit down with a release manager to unpack what's new, what's changing, and what's finally getting easier. Spoiler: it's not just the tooling. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management : 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss? TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread The Launch 🚀 21: Bigfoot As a Service — We rescued Brent's van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea. Tristan Ross Release Managers - NixOS Release Wiki NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule release-notes/rl-2505.section.md Nixos-rebuild-ng: a nixos-rebuild rewrite marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech sy…