There is a Gnome/KDE installer too now ;)

This is the opposite of me. I always get nervous when I don’t have precise control over how the disk layout looks. I explicitly decided for the non-graphical installer when I first downloaded NixOS

My OS is also a tool!

Those jerk OSs and their bullying!

I need to compile my kernel… by hand with tools from beige-age computing.

Sounds like you haven’t done it in a while. It has calamares installer now.

Slackware still does that in 2024.

How long ago did you try? You should try again, I did not have this experience setting up with the graphical installer a few weeks ago.

it wanted me to setup my own partitions manually

You’ve obviously never used nix, it’s GUI installer can auto configure just fine.

When your OS AND apps are declared and stateful a lot of risk and complexity is removed. Configuring is just a bad experience with poor usability and worse documentation.

Where do you draw the line though between tool and lifestyle? At setting up partitions (which is a trivial thing I would not mind at all)?