Comment by rgoulter

The author mentions it in the conclusion, but I think "nix package manager on non-NixOS Linux" would be the best of both worlds.

You'd avoid the friction of having to deal with software that doesn't 'just work' on NixOS, but still be able to make use of things like devenv.

Though, an understated benefit from using NixOS is that the specific fixes taken are now available "as code".