[JamesSwift]

I'm not sure if its actually more popular, or just showing up on HN more. I will say however, that I just clean reinstalled v2.8.0 of Nix Package Manager on 3 of my macs which were previously running a mix of 2.4-2.7 and its so much simpler to get going (shout out to @abathur who informed me they cleaned this up quite a bit, it was a real joy compared to before).

Nix with flakes is a game changer, and as flakes become more mature it lowers the bar that much more IMO. I'm now able to bootstrap a new non-nixOS system with home-manager in 2 commands (well technically 3 with the activation) and it only requires `sh` and `curl` (and I assume xcode command line tools):

    sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
    nix build .#homeConfigurations.{computer}.activationPackage --max-jobs auto --cores $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) && ./result/activate && rm -rf ./result

home-manager also has support for LaunchAgents now which I think makes it a complete package. The experience is very nice. I'm much more inclined to recommend it widely vs before where I hesitated to tell anyone else to adopt it unless I was ready to walk them through things and caveat some parts.