Nixos is pretty slick for servers. Everything from users to nginx to system services to firewall is defined declaratively in 1-5 files, and deployment is as sim

Nixos is pretty slick for servers. Everything from users to nginx to system services to firewall is defined declaratively in 1-5 files, and deployment is as simple as `nixos-rebuild switch -—target-host deploy@host`. For me that’s pretty wild. It makes it trivial to have both staging and prod in sync by just pushing to a repo. That means you get a better overview of the system state, and can experiment more freely knowing the machine won’t end up in a weird state. And while Nixos is hard to debug and occasionally hard to write, I find the format very easy to read. However for my personal computer, I found that it’s overkill and now I just use a dotfile manager and save my installed program names in a list. I do think nix really lacks documentation for very basic things, and for that guix is better (but I found guix harder to write and read).