I’ve been using Nix and NixOS for 4 years now. While I like using it for my PCs and tried using it for servers with success, I think its ecosystem still is immature for development and production purposes, and thus my passion for Nix has faded.
So my question is what keeps you using Nix or NixOS? How have you been using it? Do you still feel passion and hype for it?
I’ve been using NixOS for six years, and while I’m not a hyped as I was in the beginning, I still use it over anything else. My distro hopping days are over, I’d rather do something else with my time and have my computer just work.
It give me piece of mind that I can always get back to working system. Setting up new desktops is just figuring out hardware, the rest of my stuff is just there waiting to go. And its super nice to be able to upgrade without fear of a broken system.
It was a lot of learning up front, but now I feel like the maintenance is way less than with other distros.