I’m exploring a similar implementation and am honestly torn between NixOS and a more monolithic experience like Debian or OpenBSD.
As much as I love the idea of declarative builds, I’m struggling to justify the investment of learning and maintaining Nix for an individual setup. I’ve dabbled with it and mostly encountered footguns.
Whatever makes a nice, clean slab is what I’m after.
I've greatly benefited from investing just a few hours then utilizing LLMs. I was very unfamiliar to a lot of the syntax from the nix language, so I spent most of my time getting an overview. It was less than 8 hours total.
Another thing that helps a lot is to browse other people's codes on Github.
As much as I love the idea of declarative builds, I’m struggling to justify the investment of learning and maintaining Nix for an individual setup. I’ve dabbled with it and mostly encountered footguns.
Whatever makes a nice, clean slab is what I’m after.