Comment by sshine

Wholeheartedly agree.

NixOS gave me back my desire to customise my Linux again. I’ve run Linux since 1997; I’ve run a lot of distros.

Having to reconfigure my Linux on every hardware reset (1-2 years apart) just exhausted me to a point where I ran GNOME on Ubuntu so I wouldn’t waste time on one-off stuff.

My .emacs and .vimrc shrunk to 10% so I could reproduce them from memory if I had to.

With NixOS, installing a new machine and having it work exactly like all my machines is minutes of work.

I’ll never lose my hyper-customised setup again.

Running something like Arch or Artix again feels very much like losing my “save” button.