I tried to understand nix a few times but a they seem to be in a transition period.(Albeit one that has taken years already) They want to move to flakes which p

I tried to understand nix a few times but a they seem to be in a transition period.(Albeit one that has taken years already) They want to move to flakes which people here are recommending but it requires setting an experimental state. The documentation you can find is out of date with what people are recommending right now. Even the command to install a package in the official docs is now apparently the wrong thing to do. (This is not related to flakes) In the end I didn't have time to separate what's current and what's not in the documentation. People seem to have carved out bits of nix that sort of works for what they need and called it a day. Which is of course fine as long as it works. I will give it another look in 2 years.