[Nix-dev] few questions before migrating from Debian…

[Thomas Sigurdsen]

As a nixos newbie I'll weigh in. Installed nixos during the previous 
weekend, having been on gentoo for some years.

There's been some getting used to the nix language, and defining 
everything in the .nix configs instead of files in /etc/. Also, systemd 
is a strange beast; not sure how I feel about it, but it does the job :P

There definitely are some quirks and some things are difficult to figure 
out. For instance I struggled getting wpa_supplicant running, but it 
turned out that the networking.supplicant and networking.wireless 
options were creating a conflict.

When all that is said, and remembering I've only been at it for less 
than a week, I'm quite pleased with nixos and it's a joy to work with.

I love that even when I made changes that froze my boot, I just chose an 
earlier system/profile (don't know what it's called) and could start a 
fully functional system where I could fix the problems.

I would encourage you to put of some 10, 20GB on a disk and try nixos on 
it for a while. That's what I did before I deleted the old gentoo system.