I actually dropped NixOS after using it for 2 years. It's just not practical for day to day work unless you want to be messing around with Nix config or fightin

I actually dropped NixOS after using it for 2 years. It's just not practical for day to day work unless you want to be messing around with Nix config or fighting shared lib issues all the time. I'm using OpenSUSE atm and couldn't be happier - yeah it's a lot more click ops, but I get to work so much faster and everything just works. Fedora is another good option. (If you want to know, the breaking point for me was trying to get QtCreator working properly on NixOS which I sunk about 2 hours into before giving up - but took me about 5 mins on OpenSUSE to install). Nix, the package manager, is _amazing_ though, despite the wonky language. I use it for providing hermetic/reproducible environments for my dev projects. You create a shell.nix, auto load it with direnv, and the development environment is 100% replicated for everyone doing dev in that repo. Hook it into your CI too and now you have an identical dev environment everywhere. It's like virtualenv on steroids for any kind of project/tooling.