Comment by otabdeveloper4

3 days ago

It's not really a "config", it's actually a program that plugins into your infrastructure-as-code process to build system images. As expected, people here love to bikeshed and have vastly different opinions on "best practices".

I understand that, but even nixos refers to configuration.nix as a "configuration file" in its documentation.

IMO, it's totally OK that people have different opinions on what are best practices. However, I would still like to see official documentation showing beginners how to do things, comparing a few options.