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by mrkgnao 3170 days ago
I used Arch Linux for a while (~3 years) before making the jump to NixOS.

Many things I got from AUR packages are binary-cached in stable Nixpkgs, not to mention "compilers" (GCC, clang, and various versions of GHC in my case). I don't know when you last tried it out, but binary availability isn't a problem now if you'd like to give NixOS a spin. The only thing I build from source is polybar[0].

[0]: https://github.com/jaagr/polybar