I am both using plain Arch (Dekstop) and Nix (Laptop) rn
I personally think I am gonna migrate my Desktop to Nix as well, ofc pacman is quick and easy but i tend to install and uninstall a lot of apps and that way i have about 50 packages installed that i not need after around a year.
with NixOS this doesn't happen
also a big tip which might help for npm and pip packages and stuff like that: most times the packages from a languages ecosystem you can be easily installed via the main package manager, which is good for cleaner and more reproducible builds.
It also will take more time to set the system up, but after you set it up you dont have to do anything as long as you have a centralized config (meaning: everything in your /etc/nixos folder) and keep backups of your system config.
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I am both using plain Arch (Dekstop) and Nix (Laptop) rn
I personally think I am gonna migrate my Desktop to Nix as well, ofc pacman is quick and easy but i tend to install and uninstall a lot of apps and that way i have about 50 packages installed that i not need after around a year.
with NixOS this doesn't happen
also a big tip which might help for npm and pip packages and stuff like that: most times the packages from a languages ecosystem you can be easily installed via the main package manager, which is good for cleaner and more reproducible builds.
It also will take more time to set the system up, but after you set it up you dont have to do anything as long as you have a centralized config (meaning: everything in your /etc/nixos folder) and keep backups of your system config.