[MuffinFlavored]

Can you give an example of what you use NixOS for that can't be easily replaced by like... `brew install ...`?

Can you "prove" that what you use NixOS for isn't overkill?

Everything I read about NixOS is how it's reproducible or something. I set up Cargo for Rust once and never thought about it again. Where does the need to reproduce toolchains come from?

[runeks]

> Can you give an example of what you use NixOS for that can't be easily replaced by like... `brew install ...`?

Sure. At work I needed access to the office VPN. I copied a snippet into a single configuration file and everything just worked. It installed the necessary executables, and set up the needed services including the config files for these services.

[MuffinFlavored]

How is this different than installing Tunnelblick and pointing it to a .ovpn file (which I've done)?

Could you share that Nix VPN config file example please?