For me it was a big upfront time investment. I managed to get nixos installed and my programs mostly configured, and then along the way I learned more and realized my prior setup was somewhat dumb so I refactored it. This process has happened at least 4 times. But now I feel like I get it, and can update and configure all of my machines from my one laptop, using one repo of flakes.

I enjoyed learning nix/nixos in stages like that, otherwise I don’t think it would have clicked. I’m pretty sure I’m going to repeat the same process a few more times as I’m by no means yet a nix expert.

While I’m not tinkering with my setup, I absolutely love how I can install and try new projects easily, including getting a working dev environment going painlessly for almost any stack.

I started out by moving over my daily driver once I was convinced. It was a bit rough, but it forced me to get something working sooner than later.