[stelcodes]

WRT Home Manager, that makes sense and portability is definitely a cool benefit of Home Manager. But keeping all of your config for multiple workstations in one has drawbacks too. I found myself frustrated when I wanted to install something but I forgot to push changes from another computer so I needed to stash or rebase later on. Just to install a package! I only have one workstation and a small amount of servers, and I tried running NixOS on everything. It worked well (I still have multiple servers running NixOS actually) but for me, the benefits just weren't worth the overhead of living full time in Nix land. Now I use Debian stable for new servers and I prefer it. But yeah, lots of personal preference here. And WRT nix-env, it seems troubling to me that the fundamental tool of the Nix CLI is something that you recommend people stay away from. I think you may have be right about that recommendation, but I think it shows that Nix as a product is far off from being a "pick up and run" tool for average developers. I really hope that it will somehow get to that point but, like the author says, I don't think it will be Nix itself because it has burrowed itself into a bespoke, complicated UX that has a huge learning curve. I like simple things with elegant UX so that's where I'm coming from. There's just so many ways to use Nix, like, TOO many ways. But I'm glad that they're pioneering this space.