With packaged softwares, yeah it rocks and it's seamless. The problem comes from anything that's not packaged. Things that exist outside the nixos ecosystem.

With packaged softwares, yeah it rocks and it's seamless. The problem comes from anything that's not packaged. Things that exist outside the nixos ecosystem. For instance, the Android SDK is a bit of pain in the neck to install via the nixpkgs : it's a mutable piece of software with pieces that auto-update themselves, made of lots of smaller packages that aren't bundled in the main package, etc... However, the binaries google provide doesn't run properly on nixos by default because of the non-standard install (has to set LD_PRELOAD so it can find the libc).