Post #1846722

@liamoc I think this is correlation rather than (or actually as well as) causation. I know someone of the sort, who uses Nix but not NixOS, but also really loves thinking about config. And tbh I've sometimes over-optimized. I use NixOS because it "just works" and everything is remarkably easy to configure and doesn't randomly break. And I use Nix because we can guarantee pinned dependencies, and nonsense like patched LLVM (I'm sure they'll patch those crashes someday) and I don't have to keep track of some random dependency installed somewhere that might change. I think there's a correlation in that if you use Nix(OS) it's significantly easier to try for insane setups and be able to manage the complexity. And people who like that also tend to be happy to explore new software. Now it kinda sucks for one person, but with two it's great. @jonmsterling