I tried Nixos but it was overkill for my desktop usage. The learning time is a cost but also, on my old laptop, there is a noticeable performance loss comparing to arch. The benefits is not enough for my usecase. I prefer dealing with arch shitty updates.

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I prefer Debian.

Have been using NixOS as my sole os for a month or so and have zero complaints

It will quite frequently make installing and configuring things that could otherwise be a nightmare on other distros absolutely effortless (to switch DE you change one line of code, for instance)

On occasion however it makes things harder than other distros because you can't really apply stack overflow questions, differentiation etc for other distros to it as well

Generally speaking 90% of what I've wanted to do with it has had a built in option or package that was a one or two line change to a file and a command to rebuild

Also, as long as you install steam via the built in option gaming works perfectly on it for me