Comment by bjackman

It's a crazy drug because there's a lot of significant downsides to Nix[OS]. E.g. it took me a solid half an hour of focus to upgrade my config to 25.11[1]. Also, like, no Secure Boot. And I've had to reverse engineer a lot of stuff.

But like you said, I can't ever imagine going back. Once you're over the learning curve (and... yeah, that learning curve) the upside are just so huge. Nothing compares, at all.

Part of me wonders if maybe one day a bootc-based framework will offer something like 20% of the benefits of NixOS with only 10% of the downsides. But other than that, we're totally stuck with Nix forever. (And once I had switched to bootc, I bet my next thought would be "I should find a way to generate this config from Nix"...).

[1] I have a very complex config so this may be an extreme case. On the other hand, everything about Nix is basically designed as an invitation to create an extremely complex config.