Nix is fantastic. I'm running NixOS right now, and I can happily tell you that it is, by far, the best operating system I have ever used. That being said, Nix

Nix is fantastic. I'm running NixOS right now, and I can happily tell you that it is, by far, the best operating system I have ever used. That being said, Nix sucks. Documentation is scattered, deprecated, and incomplete. I still don't understand some of the most basic things with NixOS, because I cannot find documentation. Take nix-shell for example: You can make a shell.nix file in a directory to describe the environment you need, then simply nix-shell in that directory to get a working environment. It's great! I understand the concept, and use it regularly, but apart from some very tailored examples, I don't even know how to describe a simple environment with one package!