[soraminazuki]

> Packages are tend to be old. That's the downside of using nix over other package managers.

The stats from repology say otherwise. NixOS is the most up-to-date distro in existence.

> Some are of course up to date but for less popular ones, you would look elsewhere to install.

For less popular ones, it's more likely that the package won't even exist on other distros given the number of packages in nixpkgs.