I'll share my personal answer: it made computers fun again. I was miserable with debugging flaky builds on large dependency trees and "works on my machine" issu

I'll share my personal answer: it made computers fun again. I was miserable with debugging flaky builds on large dependency trees and "works on my machine" issues. After switching to nix, now I see dependencies as being almost free, and it doesn't feel like I'm taking on a responsibility to fix build issues indefinitely into the future. It's really powerful when you take something that used to be expensive and make it cheap— it changes your perspective and has all sorts of unexpected benefits. So I'll click any link on HN about Nix or NixOS.