A few weeks with NixOS

I tried NixOS for a few weeks. It showed me more about what I value in a computer than it did about itself. The declarative model works. Your whole system lives in one file. No hidden state. No setup that slowly drifted from what you intended. I broke things twice. Both times I booted into a previous generation and was back in two minutes. The tooling fits together. Flakes, home-manager,…