I switched from Arch Linux to NixOS last year and it was a great experience https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/19/switching-to-nixos-from-arch-linux.html https://rams

I switched from Arch Linux to NixOS last year and it was a great experience https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/19/switching-to-nixos-from-arch-linux.html https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/19/switching-to-nixos-from-arch.... The community is relatively small and easy to get into, with lots of people ready to help out beginners. It took a while to get used to, especially considering the way to learn how something works seems to always be to go and read source code on GitHub. There are good things and bad things about this approach but I fear it makes it difficult for your average user to use since it is a bit of a barrier to entry. I loved how extensible the system was, and how easy it was to make modifications simply by modifying configuration.nix. It made it really feel as though my system was truly 'mine', in some ways being similar to the feeling I get from setting up an Arch machine. Being able to just recreate a machine by cloning your configuration onto the new machine, and running 'nixos-rebuild switch' is extremely powerful. Being able to roll back machine is also amazing. Something else that really impressed me was how great though ZFS support was. Setting up a ZFS system on Nix is one of the best experiences I've had using ZFS on Linux. It really feels as though ZFS is a first-class citizen on Nix, not something tacked on top. It's possible to set up ZFS without adding any sort of external repository like with Arch. I ended up leaving NixOS after running into an issue that I would get related to UEFI, and at that point didn't have the time to track down the problem, but I'm really excited for where NixOS is going in the future, especially when declarative user environments https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250 (user configuration) with NixUP becomes a thing. I will definitely be coming back to it in the future.