[flatbub]

Nice. I've migrated to flakes and much prefer it.

Flakes provides abstractions at a per-repo level.

Guix offers abstractions all the way down: an OS contains a bootloader, which is also its own type.

> The default NixOS machine does literally nothing so I don't have to worry about that.

The default NixOS machine chooses a bootloader, enables nscd, has default users, enable DHCP, ...

... and those are just the parts I was able to guess at, and then confirm by checking whether their 'enable' option defaulted to true.

It's unclear how to determine (from the source code) what a default machine does in NixOS.

It was only when I tried Guix that I had the visibility into what my machine was actually composed of.