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Yes, and NixOS is the most frustrating Linux distro I ever tried, without a doubt. I love the concept, but the execution is hard. NixOS can't configure desktop environments, such as Gnome and KDE. NixOS is stable, so NixOS works best in server environments.
But in server environments, tools such as Ansible are orders of magnitudes more comprehensive to everyone who understands the Linux basics. NixOS is therefore dominant in neither desktop nor server environments, but it's a neat academic project.
I failed to find sources for what I'm about to say, but there was a point where the NixOS stable branch... broke. I'm not sure what went down, but I think that a manual merge train messed smth up. If that's correct, then NixOS is less stable than Debian.
There's also the situation where they store the entire package store in Amazon S3 because someone else paid for it. That someone disappeared, and they expect the community to stem the costs now. If they don't pay up, NixOS stability is once again dead.
I feel like the tooling is all over the place. There are many ways to do one thing, and you never know what's the right thing to do.
Overall a poor experience.