[jegp]

From personal experience, using NixOS saves me a lot of time compared to Debian based distros. The initial setup is painful, but after that you are in complete control. Don't need to update? Don't! I had desktop sessions running flawlessly for months without any interruptions. Never seen that before on other distros, really.

[therein]

Yeah I had a 680+ day uptime on my NixOS workstation until "GPU fell off the bus".