[nylonstrung]

> the benefits are basically minimal/none

Sounds like you've never used it. I've daily driven it for ~2 years and would never go back

It works great with containers, you can use Nix to build extremely lean OCI images. Mercury uses it this way- the book NixOS in production discusses it

[dangus]

Just seems like it’s a solution for a problem I don’t have.

I have to learn a whole new language that’s only used for NixOS just to do things I already have no difficulty doing with existing tooling.

I enthusiastically say, no, I’ve never used it, because, like I said, having that kind of learning curve just to set up an OS is kind of insane. Doesn’t matter if it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.