NixOS is great. I use it as my daily driver. But. In my experience, your distro will never have all the software you would like in its repos. And I've found thi

NixOS is great. I use it as my daily driver. But. In my experience, your distro will never have all the software you would like in its repos. And I've found this is true of NixOS also. So it should be mentioned that some software does not play nicely with it [0][1]. Because some things will be missing from distro repos, packaging is, to me, quite a valuable skill. Compare, for example, the packages for autorandr for Nix and Arch [2][3]. When I started using Arch I found the Arch package fit much better within my understanding of the world. I expect most here would find the same. Here is what is essentially the manual for Nix packaging [4]. Personally I'd say that if you're unwilling to consume that, eventually you are going to encounter a frustrating problem with Nix that you cannot solve, and potentially regret using it. Though, using a VM or potentially a container might get you around some/many of those issues. I should also mention that Nix Pills may be worth a read before beginning to use NixOS- it's what convinced me to switch, in fact. [0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-methods-to-run-a-non-nixos-executable-on-nixos https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-me... [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/36759 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/36759 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=autorandr-git https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=autor... [3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e380ef398761206954e51426d16a328eaba27fce/pkgs/tools/misc/autorandr/default.nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/e380ef398761206954e514... [4] https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/ https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/