> No way back from there :)

Presumably because it locks your bootloader or something, such that you are unable to wipe your PC once you're finally done pulling your hair out and ready to admit defeat? ;-)

Careful though, you might end up like me and add more and more machines, because setting up new machine is very satisfying with nixos

For any nix-curious person out there check out Julia Evans posts [0]

But also note that she eventually moved out of it > (note from 18 months later in August 2024: I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me)

[0] https://jvns.ca/categories/nix/