At times i have felt that my distro was so not worth the flak.

But the thing that keeps me on it is i write it once and never half to dick with it again.

NixOS is really powerful, but the learning curve will push you to the edge!

I currently self host alot of stuff on my server which runs NixOS, theres some services that are as simple as ollama.service = true;

And others that you spend hours cussing at. But i feel the declarative nature is what makes switching to any other distro feel so unintuitive.

My linux journey had been,

Manjaro > ubuntu > arch > fedora > silverblue > opensuse tumbleweed > gentoo > nixos > opensuse tumbleweed > nixos.

I kept coming back to nix because i wrote what i wanted it to do and it didnt it that way every time. Its been a godsend for ZFS, although its not super bad to use ZFS on debian just mostly time consuming. The fact i dont half to worry about a update breaking DKMS and making my filesystem not work. I SWEAR SUN IF YOU COULD HAVE JUST DONE THE GPL INSTEAD OF CDL!!!

I have recently been exploring Guix, purely because of the NixOS drama. But i think nix is my main server OS