The UX is much nicer with flakes. Flakes provide a consistent entry-point to a set of Nix files (rather than just a hoping that Nix files conform to some conve

The UX is much nicer with flakes. Flakes provide a consistent entry-point to a set of Nix files (rather than just a hoping that Nix files conform to some convention). Nix flakes also let you get by with even less worry about the system state: e.g. you don't need to add channels or put your code in your user's overlays directory. You can just use the path/URI to a flake, and nix will take care of downloading all the inputs appropriately.