[rgoulter]

> nix is superior in every single way.

My experience using NixOS on desktop is that it's 95% wonderful, 5% very painful.

If you run into friction with NixOS, you may need to have a wider/deeper understanding of what you're trying to do, compared to the more typical Linux OSs which can be beaten into shape.

With NixOS, you pay all the complexity up front.

[throwawayqqq11]

Such a pity that the article didnt touch on running rust nightly or the sometimes statefull nature of user configs of some programs. The 5% painful part was just around the corner.

[schindlabua]

Fair point but I've stopped trying to declaratively manage stuff in nix that has its own idiosyncratic state management. That way youre just using nix to run an installer.