I would make Debian and Arch be deterministic like NixOS, but with a different language and less overhead. I really like the principle but the implementation is subpar.
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For Arch, you may like a project called aconfmgr.
If it wasn't written in bash... 😢
I believe they are still part of a different package. They aren't Wayland native though so they will use a bit more battery life and won't be able to see wayland components
A robust way to make an install script on arch Linux.
NixOS
Mostly perfect in my opinion but it'd be nice if when they renamed options they didn't deprecate the old option names so old configs still worked
Garuda. I wish the base install of wine actually worked, and that half the packages in chaotic-aur weren't buggy as fuck or just completely non functional.
This sounds like the classic of "just use Arch". But joke aside. If I really need a GUI Arch distro, I would pick endeavourOS.
But nowadays 1 min of archinstall is so fast, not sure I even bother.
NixOS
I love NixOS, but the documentation is terrible. Better documentation would go a long way to making it a more user-friendly platform.
Slackware: nothing, it's perfect just the way it is.
I really haven't given nix the language the time it deserves, but I really want nixosr configuration bindings in Python. Yes it makes me want to vomit but I do kind of live and breathe Python these days. Maybe a python nix generator would be more appropriate, either way it would totally destroy the benefits of using nix
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Debian, include /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH by default.
Fedora user here. A great improvement would simply be shipping unmodified (non "freeworld") versions of mesa packages in the official repositories, so you don't have to install them from rpmfusion, as they are often a few days behind with their mesa package upgrades, which leads to conflicts/issues in the dnf update process.