My experience was seriously different. I started with Slackware, switched to Arch and after a failed attempt to run some AUR scripts, I was tired and switched t

My experience was seriously different. I started with Slackware, switched to Arch and after a failed attempt to run some AUR scripts, I was tired and switched to NixOS. Incidentally, I treat both my Emacs config and my NixOS and home-manager configurations as Igors. They are never really finished. In this sense, the "many months of effort to get to that point" does not matter. Also, with NixOS I feel I can be bolder than with other distros, knowing with way more accuracy what is breaking my configuration. > Yes, Docker is an ugly duck compared to Nix, but it brings 90% of the reproducibility benefits and probably everyone on your team can be up and running in hours. The Docker replit was using before Nix was going hopelessly "uglier": https://blog.replit.com/nix https://blog.replit.com/nix Also, what Cargo and NPM and `<insert lang here>` lockfile system do for each lang, Nix does in a more general package management level.