a few people in the replies are asking why someone might want to use nix as an OS / to manage your python packages / to manage your config files.

does anyone want to share their reasons for doing those things? I don't really know.

(please give examples of some specific problems Nix solves for you and what you like about it, don't just say "it's reproducible/declarative” :) )

@b0rk I have ADHD and have maintained a weird soup of internet-hosted stuff served from a VPS for decades at this point.

What used to happen before I switched to Nix is that, when I needed to upgrade, I would spin up a new VPS, half-migrate to it, and then never finish, leaving a few things running on the old machine. In the process I'd constantly find I'd forgetten custom configuration tweaks in dusty subdirectories of /etc and end up leaving things half-broken for months before I caught it.