Comment by mkhalil

My journey with NixOS is as follows: 1) great and useful for development work. (I use NixOS inside WSL) 2) but for your general Desktop environment, I'd say it's only great and useful if you find "tooling" fun/as a hobby (i.e. the type of person who keeps their dot-files updated in a git-repo [although, you won't need dot-files anymore :)]

I would say the biggest negative is that it seems the development of it is disjointed, as there are almost too many ways to do the same thing; some things are being deprecated before the documentation even keeps up with development.

--- personal notes: --- Also, some things are finicky and require some understanding to get to work (e.g. getting VSCode (on Windows) working with language analyzers and code sitting inside a WSL NixOS distro)

- I love Flakes but don't really love home-manager; I can understand home-manager being useful if your using Nix and not NixOS. - My NixOS rules pretty simple: 1) A per-project flake.nix + direnv file (or an env playground) 2) Configuring "etc/nixos/configuration.nix" for global tools like "wget, git, etc." (don't get me started with programs.<program_name>.enabled, see above for "too many ways to do the same thing")