I don't think there's a best community, but there might be one that best fits a particular set of values.
I like that NixOS folk treat "build a Linux distribution" as a software engineering problem: building abstractions with a language; declarative interface; large scale changes; automation; integration tests on PR; shared ownership over strong maintainership.
I like that NixOS folk treat "build a Linux distribution" as a software engineering problem: building abstractions with a language; declarative interface; large scale changes; automation; integration tests on PR; shared ownership over strong maintainership.