I shifted to NixOS over three weeks ago, and I found myself pretty content with most of the things regarding NixOS (if not all the things). But I ended up stumbled with packaging some complicated packages such as intel-i915-backport-dkms equivalent from AUR and the fact that my file manager won’t recognize any application that I installed from home-manager as an application that can open files (Nautilus). So, exhausted from configuring everything by hand, I am trying to see if there are NixOS distributions that work, like Manjaro i3/sway editions, compared to Arch.
There are lots of adjustments that Arch users have to make when they come over to NixOS. One is that with Arch, there’s more of an expectation that you will go it alone, using the famously comprehensive documentation. Whereas with NixOS, where the documentation is famously bad, you’re better off asking questions. If there are specific issues that are causing you trouble, you might want ask about them either here or on the NixOS discourse.