I think there's low-hanging fruit in terms of what you can benefit from with Nix without having to learn too much. (Albeit, learning Nix enough to be comfortabl

I think there's low-hanging fruit in terms of what you can benefit from with Nix without having to learn too much. (Albeit, learning Nix enough to be comfortable using it for what you want may take time). -- I'd encourage giving it a try anyway. The biggest negative difference I've felt is that the 'nix classic' way of imperatively installing a package to a profile (`nix-env -iA nixpkgs.<name>`) isn't forward-compatible with the 'nix command' equivalent(`nix profile install nixpkgs#<name>`). And the latter is only compatible with flakes. So, you can use `nix-env`, until you use `nix profile`. -- nix-env/nix profile 'discouraged' because they're prone to problems from "I forgot I did that" / "I didn't know I did that".. but, still. (e.g. home-manager uses nix-env under the hood).