[rgoulter]

> Using nixos as a daily driver doesn't make sense to me

Many Nix enthusiasts use NixOS as a daily driver, and are very pleased with it.

I'd say some of the advantages are: the same 'elegance' from being able to declare how a package gets built carries over to being able to configure a system. -- e.g. for niche things like "setup Yubikey with PAM", I don't have to worry about what config settings to manually change, I can just update my config with that. (And my config is in a git repo; whereas "what changes I made" is not).

There are certainly significant drawbacks, sure; but I think the main decider between whether it makes sense is how appealing "take the time to write a config with changes" is vs "just run the command / edit the system file" is.