I've been running NixOS on a casual home desktop for about a year now. I'm in love with some of its big ideas, like per-project dependency files that mostly el

I've been running NixOS on a casual home desktop for about a year now. I'm in love with some of its big ideas, like per-project dependency files that mostly eliminate my need for VMs and container management tools, and being able to read my OS configuration in a single file. On the other hand, most of my work these days ends up as a Dockerfile and Docker images anyways, and the benefits of Nix package management could be had with Nix alone (not NixOS). So at the end of the day I'm running a slightly buggy KDE 5 desktop that I haven't invested the time in fixing. I have a cool package manager, but I'm using it with one global nix environment. Packages are not hard to find once I know what I'm looking for, but discovering those packages and their nix-specific names can be tricky at times. That said I'm new to desktop Linux, and it's hard to fault NixOS for most of the (relative) difficulties I've encountered.