If your distro disappeared, what would you switch to?

Hi Toadie,

I missed your earlier posting when the topic came up. Would you mind answering a few questions I posted elsewhere, for which I did not receive a response?

May I ask …

  • how long have you had NixOS as your primary desktop ?

  • what is the estimation of how complete your migration … of old functionality to NixOS … is ?

  • how confident do you feel about your mastery of the admin and customization tasks for NixOS ?

  • is strong familiarity with Debian-based distros a facilitator … or a hindrance … in approaching the migration to NixOS ?

My questions are motivated by an interest in possibly adopting NixOS, because of the “functional-specification” approach, but fear that such an approach

  • would involve too esoteric a “specification language”, or

  • would possibly not give the necessary fine control.

Would you care to share any opinion on that possible issue?

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