I mean my root filesystem is immutable. After trying NixOS and seeing that article I linked about an immutable NAS using Alpine I decided to try it for myself. I found it easier to just customize the Arch ISO builder and generate/update images as needed. Packages aren’t pinned and it’s not 100% deterministic, but that’s fine it’s a risk I’m willing to take.

Also I found NixOS annoying:

1. Because of the language

2. Because the scripts/language (I forget the command) was doing god knows what behind the scenes. My needs aren’t that complicated I’m comfortable with just manually setting things up and locking that in by generating an Arch image.