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I'm a beginner myself and have been trying my best to keep things simple. But I do agree that the complexity creep is quite tempting with Nix. Not sure why thou

• hamandcheese 3y ago
  I think nix has a fair amount of gravity - once you've started, assuming like it, you will quickly want to use it for everything. I don't think most people's flakes are more complex than the alternative (which would be, I don't know, a bunch of different script, maybe some ansible playbooks?) but it is a bit daunting when all that complexity is wrangled into a single abstraction.