[willghatch]

I run NixOS. I recently wrote a blog post about my opinions of the pros/cons: https://willghatch.net/blog/2020/06/27/nixos-the-good-the-ba...

For several years previously I ran Arch Linux on laptops, Debian on servers, and a mix of the two on various desktops. I'm generally much happier with NixOS. NixOS-style package management is the future, it's clearly better than all its competitors (I put Guix together with Nix as NixOS-style here). NixOS-style system configuration is also much nicer than most OSes, though the quality of configuration design for different components varies a lot, and I think there could be big improvements to the configuration language and APIs in future OSes that try to improve on the model (largely due to NixOS being the first system of its kind). I'm happy that Guix is also exploring this space and making some different decisions, and it's the only other OS that I would seriously consider right now. All in all, I'm very pleased with NixOS.

[domenkozar]

I think most of your critique can be addressed with documentation, I've started the work at https://nix.dev/