> Step 2 is doing a lot of work here. It's pretty 'draw the rest of the fucking owl'. Not really. Most distros aren't fully set up from the moment you complete

> Step 2 is doing a lot of work here. It's pretty 'draw the rest of the fucking owl'. Not really. Most distros aren't fully set up from the moment you complete a base install. Similarly, all you need for a base install of NixOS is to enable (1) a desktop environment, (2) a text editor, (3) a web browser, and (4) probably NetworkManager. In practice, this is a matter of uncommenting three or four lines from the template that nixos-generate-config gives you. Then after the install, you go about making everything comfy, just like with any other distro.