I’ll edit. That was clearly a stretch

Indeed, why would I switch, already have been running NixOS for 10+ years.

Note that there’s both the rolling unstable channel and a bi-annual stable release channel.

Important to note that NixOS has both a rolling release and point release version.

Solution without a problem. A cool solution but yeah.

The features themselves are very useful for basically any user. Whether they are worth the non-standardness and issues that come with it is another question.

It is an immutable distro, altough it isn’t image-based like Fedora’s rpm-ostree.

NixOS basically replaces Ansible because the Nix package manager achieves the same goals already (configuration, deployment, …).

But I agree, the work necessary to put into this non-standard distro makes it hard to recommend for a casual user.

NixOS is not immutable in the way Fodora Silverblue is, and way more declarative and reproducible than Ansible. But yeah it is not something you “need”. Other distros work too, but NixOS is way more fun.