I use home-manager on Ubuntu on my work machine. You have to pay the full learning curve of Nix. Once you do, it works just fine. I think there comes a natural

I use home-manager on Ubuntu on my work machine. You have to pay the full learning curve of Nix. Once you do, it works just fine. I think there comes a natural pressure to use Nix for as much as possible and slowly cut down one's dependency on the "base" system when you go this route. Maybe that's just because I want to see my investment in Nix pay off. I would say that the biggest benefit you get is the hugeness and currentness of nixpkgs and the fact that it becomes a lot less important what software you have "installed".