Not that weird of a setup. A few years ago I was responsible for dev environments for >500 developers. I wasn't aware of Nix at that point in time, so we provid

Not that weird of a setup. A few years ago I was responsible for dev environments for >500 developers. I wasn't aware of Nix at that point in time, so we provided prebuilt Linux VMs for local and remote use,which we would update with Chef scripts. In the meantime I also use Nix for setting things up for my personal dev environment. Currently trying to use WSL2, not sure yet whether that is really better than a VM. I can recommend using the nix Home-Manager for combined dot file management and tools installation. With direnv and nix you can set it up such that when you enter a directory you get the exact version of the tools you want for that project. Being able to easily manage different versions of the same package easily is IMHO the killer feature of Nix.