I will say this with a whole heart. My arch linux broke and I wanted to try out nix.

The most shocking part about nix is the nix-shell (I know I can use it in other distros but hear me out once), its literally so cool to install projects for one off.

Want to record a desktop? Its one of those tasks that for me I do just quite infrequently and I don't like how in arch, I had to update my system with obs as a dependency always or I had to uninstall it. Ephemerality was a concept that I was looking for before nix since I always like to try out new software/keep my home system kind of minimalist-ish Cool. nix-shell -p obs-studio & obs and you got this.

honestly, I like a lot of things about nix tbh. I still haven't gone too much into the flake sides of things and just use it imperatively sadly but I found out that nix builds are sandboxed so I found a unique idea of using it as a sandbox to run code on reddit and I think I am going to do something cool with it. (building something like codapi , codapi's creator is kinda cool if you are reading this mate, I'd love talking to ya)

And I personally almost feel as if some software could truly be made plug n play (like imagine hetzner having nix os machines (currently I have heard that its support is finnicky) but then somehow a way to get hetzner nix os machines and then I almost feel as if we can get something really really close to digital ocean droplets/ plug n play without any isolation that docker provides because I guess docker has its own usecases but I almost feel as if managing docker stuff is kinda harder than nix stuff but feel free to correct me as I am just saying what I am feelin using nix.

I also wish if something like functional lua (does fxn lua exist??) -> nix transpiler because I'd like to write lua instead of nix to manage my system but I guess nix is fine too!