I moved from Arch to NixOS. In case it helps these are my main motivations:
* In Arch, very rarely, I'd apply an update that would break things. Going back to a stable system was a pain. I ended up with some snapper setups and a list of commands to convert the latest snapshot to a r/w 'root' that worked well enough. With NixOS I just reboot to the previous generation on any issue.
* For development I'd often use third-party tools to manage multiple language versions. For example I used pyenv. With Nix it's much easier to just use python39, or nodejs-18_x, or whatever as Nix makes this really simple.
If you do decide to try it out I'll recommend using the github query 'path:*.nix ___' to copy off others, as the main complaints about Nix seem to center around the language.
I moved from Arch to NixOS. In case it helps these are my main motivations:
* In Arch, very rarely, I'd apply an update that would break things. Going back to a stable system was a pain. I ended up with some snapper setups and a list of commands to convert the latest snapshot to a r/w 'root' that worked well enough. With NixOS I just reboot to the previous generation on any issue.
* For development I'd often use third-party tools to manage multiple language versions. For example I used pyenv. With Nix it's much easier to just use python39, or nodejs-18_x, or whatever as Nix makes this really simple.
If you do decide to try it out I'll recommend using the github query 'path:*.nix ___' to copy off others, as the main complaints about Nix seem to center around the language.