Comment by blablabla123

While the macOS updates itself work quite well for me, e.g. I also didn't mind the 64 bit-only that much, anything relying on XCode command line tools is quite a pain. First I need to fight through the inconsistent warnings that the version is out-of-date/not installed and eventually find a Stackoverflow post which describes how to fix that. Afterwards a few other fixes are needed. I worked around it by relying more on Homebrew (which needs the occasional symlink fix) and limiting the number of tools I build myself. Still quite frustrating, I'll definitely switch back to Linux once my laptop won't get anymore security updates.

I realize Nix is also an option but the user land version is much more rudimentary than NixOS' - which already requires expert level knowledge of the package management for everyday chores.