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NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping - Joshua Blais (joshblais.com)
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[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

100% agree. I’ve tried NixOs with Home Manager for a couple of weeks and it’s very nice, however it not very useful to me and went back to Arch eventually. I just don’t see any benefit to using it over vanilla arch with Flatpak, Bubblewrap or Landlock, besides reproducibility.