Comment by licebmi__at__

I have the same exact recommendation. My work laptop was stolen and setting back everything was a matter of 10 mins. I have a custom emacs configuration, templated with nix, that only calls stuff from nix store, that I’m pretty much confident that I nothing will break as long as nix works.

Btw, I still use hombrew for some stuff I’m too lazy to create derivations, but I use nix-darwin homebrew module to also manage it with nix. The shitty part is that I must install homebrew. I think that can also be automated with a simple activation script, but I’m too lazy and it’s not something I do more than once on the machine.