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Coming originally from Fedora, anything non-declarative (like NixOS or Guix) feels incredibly clunky for servers. There is an incredible value in writing a server configuration once that is fully reproducible and results in systems that don't have drift.

For desktops there is that value as well. However, I have usually set up my macOS environment in two hours or so, the pay-off is a bit less for me. However, setting up a dev environment for development projects is awesome, especially if a project has dependencies that are normally considered system dependencies (e.g. native libraries).