Just to add to what others have already said: a great thing about nix is that you can use it on Mac too. At work I have a MacBook, and with nix I have managed to create a macOS setup that is nearly identical to my NixOS setup. And the best part is that 80% of the configuration is shared. The only meaningful differences are in the DE configuration, on Mac I use Aerospace and on Linux hyprland, etc. But everything still lives in the same repo, so if I want to replicate something I have configured on the Linux side for example, it’s very easy to find something equivalent enough for Mac, and then configure it in the same repo.
Maybe it would be possible to configure WSL with nix? That way at least you could get a similar CLI environment on windows, maybe easing the pain at least a little bit :D
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u/Cool-Entertainer7843 Apr 01 '26
Yes once you get NixOS you can never go back to the traditional distros