Comment by poincaredisk

>At this point I just use Nix home manager for my dotfiles/userspace programs on a normal distro and I feel like I get 90% of the benefit without any of the headaches.

If it works for you, sounds good!

I comment because I recently had opposite thoughts - that maybe I should migrate off nix home manager - to keep 90% of benefits (nixos) and avoid all the headaches (home manager quirks). Funny how opposite experience we have.

For me I love nixos because how when I configure something it just works, and how when I break something I can just undo that easily. And I like how my system don't get more cruft with time and stays lean.