Have you tried GuixSD? I run NixOS, but I recognize that user experiences might be very different depending on the packages you use. NixPkgs is huge, enormous.

Have you tried GuixSD? I run NixOS, but I recognize that user experiences might be very different depending on the packages you use. NixPkgs is huge, enormous. Some stuff is really well maintained, whereas other stuff isn't. Furthermore, declarative systems make a difficulty tradeoff. Lots of stuff is much easier, but problems are sometimes harder to debug as there's an extra abstraction layer. IMHO, these days the best distributions out there are either very simple imperative ones with binaries (Arch, Alpine, etc.) or Nix-like (NixOS and GuixSD). Getting experience in those two extremes is really valuable.