[aszlig]

That's easier said than done, since I think Nix has a somewhat steep learning curve.

However, what I'm missing in most comments here is that - if I'm not mistaken - Flatpak and most others are essentially tailored towards distributing binaries, which is at least my personal gripe with them.

The reason is that especially with Nix I'm used to ad-hoc `.override`/`.overrideAttrs` and patch software in ways I'd like them to behave rather than being degraded to being the sole user of a software not supposed to be modified.

Flatpak, Snap and even Docker go the opposite route, which essentially degrades FOSS to essentially proprietary software, if even upstream would just point you towards "just use the Flatpak"™.

Others here also have suggested that it would be a good way to only distribute proprietary software, but as a Nix user who's packaging and patching (well, and reverse engineering) proprietary software I'd even disagree on that, because patching the environment and the entire dependency graph is something very useful which you'll lose with Flatpak/Snap.