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I find Nix to be a really esoteric platform that completely inscrutable to a regular user. The people who do use it are extremely hostile to any tools that simplify the experience for the end user like Fleek. I would not recommend it for ANY regular user in any way, shape, or form.
Yeah this is unfortunately true. I love NixOS and I use it constantly but I'm also a professional developer so it's pretty easy for me. If I weren't I imagine it would be close to impossible.
Unfortunately it's very difficult to browse or understand how to use Nix, and the Nix language itself is quite opaque.
I love the results, but I wish it were done in ... basically anything other than Nix.
Theoretically there is Gnu Guix, which uses Guile... I have no clue what support for it is like though.
Nice to see a Guix mention! It's in flux but I appreciate it's motivation and the hard work being done. One language, kernel agnostic, functional to the core. It's gained some traction with the reproducible research builds crowd. It always makes me think of The Rise of Worse is Better.