[mjhoy]

I also use Nix, and agree with these caveats. My personal experience is that it can be hard to initially set up Nix, but once you do, it's rock solid. It's particularly great for sharing config across machines. Here's config for my personal dev environment for instance: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/main/nix/nixpkgs/conf...

[Isthatablackgsd]

I tried Nix while ago when NixOS made news in HN. You are right, it is difficult to set it up. Eventually I give up on it and tried to remove Nix from my macOS, let say it is difficult to remove Nix as well. I tried their command line to remove Nix and it didn't remove it even with sudo. Nix been sitting on my macOS for a month since it couldn't remove it completely. I realized I just have to go to Disk Utility to dismount/remove the Nix VHD and then ran the command line again which finally got it removed from my OS.

[pxc]

Hm, that's a good point.

Removing Nix is easier on operating systems where root is root (normal Unix-likes without a lot of filesystem-related security policies enabled). Nix only uses a separate APFS volume on macOS because Apple disabled writing to /.

The way that affects the uninstall process should be documented.

I spotted some people who've recently worked on Nix's install scripts and uninstall procedure elsewhere on the thread. You can file an issue if you think they'll miss your comment :)