>> brew, distrobox, flatpak > You can have that stuff on Nix if you need it. In fact, I'd openly recommend such a solution: NixOS base, most applications via

>> brew, distrobox, flatpak > You can have that stuff on Nix if you need it. In fact, I'd openly recommend such a solution: NixOS base, most applications via flatpak, and dev work in distrobox. Gives you 80% of the benefits for 20% of the work. (Although I will also happily agree that Fedora's Silverblue or OpenSUSE MicroOS as the base is also pretty good; I think that's just a trade if you need to actually tweak the base layer)