Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

> I do install my Mac from scratch every 6 months or so (I like a clean system), but with a dotfiles repo and Homebrew, it takes me about an hour to set everything up again, which is far less time than maintaining a Nix-managed system.

Er, YMMV I guess? IMO if you're spending more than an hour fussing with it per 6 months, you're doing something weird