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Outside of configuring your system, almost everything from NixOS is applicable to other distro's. The only notable exception I can think of are video drivers, and you will need nixGL for that.
Otherwise, I would recommend looking at home-manager, it's essentially NixOS but for any linux distro, or even darwin with nix-darwin. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
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2015 MBPs are great Linux machines, everything is supported except for some webcams, but there are out of tree drivers that work perfectly. Sound via Pulseaudio or Pipewire work well out of the box, too.
I run Wayland, and libinput gives you pretty much all of the trackpad features and gestures you get in macOS like adaptive acceleration, tapping, multi finger gestures etc. Xorg works well, as well, except its gesture support is limited compared to Wayland's.
Depending on the model, WiFi has open source and closed source driver support that both work well, and have Bluetooth support.
This is a good reference to see how well your model is supported on Linux[1]. This project will remap your keyboard shortcuts to match the ones you're familiar with from macOS[2].
I've also posted about making Linux and Plasma Desktop act like macOS on HN[3].
[1] https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
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2015 MBPs are great Linux machines, everything is supported except for some webcams, but there are out of tree drivers that work perfectly. Sound via Pulseaudio or Pipewire work well out of the box, too.
I run Wayland, and libinput gives you pretty much all of the trackpad features and gestures you get in macOS like adaptive acceleration, tapping, multi finger gestures etc. Xorg works well, as well, except its gesture support is limited compared to Wayland's.
Depending on the model, WiFi has open source and closed source driver support that both work well, and have Bluetooth support.
This is a good reference to see how well your model is supported on Linux[1]. This project will remap your keyboard shortcuts to match the ones you're familiar with from macOS[2].
I've also posted about making Linux and Plasma Desktop act like macOS on HN[3].
[1] https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
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I don't think that's true, at least about terraform. I see[1] version 1.0.2 updated 8 days ago (same day it was released).
The installation[2] is also not that complicated.
The documentation also seems to be easily to be found on the project's site[3].
Nix has its issues, like steep learning curve due to the language being functional and lazily evaluated, but it doesn't look like you even got to that point. If these things were causing you difficulties, perhaps you dodged a bullet.
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/af65c312fb1b7dd93a7881...
