> I hear you, Nix definitely does feel slow and I must day over the few years I’ve been using it it has definitely slowed down even more. I don't know about ot

> I hear you, Nix definitely does feel slow and I must day over the few years I’ve been using it it has definitely slowed down even more. I don't know about others but once you become used to package managers like pacman and apk, it's a jarring experience to use apt and dnf, especially dnf. And Nix feels just as slow, if not slower, than all of them. I have to install hundreds of MBs of metadata before I can install a package with dnf and the fastestmirror=true has essentially been useless in the history of my years of usage of dnf. The end result is me downloading hundreds of megs at speeds less than 1MBps. > In terms of the DSL, I’m really surprised that people find it a problem as much as they do. When I first tried Nix I moved my first nonprod server over to it that very afternoon. I find it much easier to use a combination Ansible, python/shell scripts, and dotfiles on multiple git forges. This setup may not be as declarative as NixOS but it is much easier to grok and use. I have no motivation to learn an obscure DSL to manage my system.