Love NixOS. I spend about a month in it. While it did feel very complete, I did end up reverting to Arch just for lack of time. I agree that you have to learn t

Love NixOS. I spend about a month in it. While it did feel very complete, I did end up reverting to Arch just for lack of time. I agree that you have to learn the nix packaging language in order to make good use of the system. When I have more time, I will get back to it. Another issue I had was around config methodology - specifically for the desktop use case. For example, in Gnome I wanted to tune my brightness and mouse sensitivity. In most desktop cases you want to adjust those things every session and have that remembered between reboots. But that violates the Nix config system. Perhaps there is a middle ground where those session specific configs can be stored instead of putting them in the global config. Also the Nix package manager is great - mostly that it is platform agnostic, but the real power is in NixOS's global config file - which is essential for SERVER stability. I will say that it was an enlightening experience as a whole and some of these concepts are being taken very seriously in other projects. I cant wait for non-deterministic build systems like Puppet and Salt to be a thing of the past. Nix, Guix, Snap packages (and the like), and Docker are much safer and dependable.