Much more resource heavy. I tried NixOS and Bazzite (and other spins purporting to be lighteweight) and the difference on a 2010-era mid-range laptop was notice

Much more resource heavy. I tried NixOS and Bazzite (and other spins purporting to be lighteweight) and the difference on a 2010-era mid-range laptop was noticeable in terms of sluggishness. Not that this laptop was going to be my daily driver, but I like experimenting. It was a good showing for NixOS and that decided which one I would take. All of the other nice things about NixOS (fast rebuilding, easy install images, remote deploy, easy build tweaks, ...) were cherries on top.