[drdaeman]

> or the vim-like overhead to learn it properly.

In my opinion, it's somewhat simpler than learning how to do Debian packaging properly (with emphasis on "properly", following all the modern best practices).

Quite a lot of folks that run Nix or NixOS write themselves decent derivations that could be (and frequently are) contributed to nixpkgs (of course, there are a lot of quirks/hacks as well). But I think quite a few folks who run Debian make themselves high-quality packages - e.g. why bother setting up cowbuilder and do the proper repo for gbp with all the pristine-tar branch oddities, when checkinstall does the trick.

[stayfrosty420]

Ah, I will concede I probably am just a huge idiot then. I suppose I don't often find myself needing to bootstrap a linux OS in this way.