Not a developer, is nix os good for daily regular use without going through the hard stuff ?

• devbox

  48 7,493 9.7 Go

  Instant, easy, and predictable development environments

  

No. It requires learning a whole new different way of looking at configuration with its own language. There are some solutions that use nix but try to abstract away the difficulties for development environments e.g., devbox (https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox). Better looking at those.

• Home Manager using Nix

  182 5,903 9.8 Nix

  Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

  

It really depends on what applications you use. If you use many applications with custom settings on your system, the reproducibility will appeal to you. I would suggest you have a look at home-manager. If you only use graphical applications which can be installed from an App store for your system, you probably don't want to install those applications using Nix. Not all graphical applications are available for Nix, and Ubuntu is better in that regard.

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