Ive always loved the idea of nix, but feel like I've read numerous, if not horror, at least uncomfortable stories about the actual real-world experience after the initial "setup yak shaving" is done - which is often exciting for "us", it's the new project problem solving part before it falls into the boring "work" part.
If I have an arch system now, how useful is it to use Nix or Homemanager on a non-nixos linux system? I dont really want to dump a working system and duel booting always has whatever you need on the other system.
Do you get anything when not using NixOS to manage everything? What good is it if half my system is installed by pacman, half by asdf-per-project and the rest by nix? Has anyone gone down this route? What is the actual lived experience of half-assing it?
If I have an arch system now, how useful is it to use Nix or Homemanager on a non-nixos linux system? I dont really want to dump a working system and duel booting always has whatever you need on the other system.
Do you get anything when not using NixOS to manage everything? What good is it if half my system is installed by pacman, half by asdf-per-project and the rest by nix? Has anyone gone down this route? What is the actual lived experience of half-assing it?