i've been getting increasingly frustrated by the software on my NAS. truenas scale has just been constantly broken for me, increasingly unperformant, and lost support for any real applications with truecharts having a meltdown, so i opted to just bite the bullet and rebuild everything from scratch in nixos.
so far? it's fuckin great. i've never used nix for anything serious (i've played around with dev-shells and the like) but it's working well here. my biggest complaint is that the docs are, by and large, Not Great. but i've dealt with bad docs in the past and i'm getting by.
that said: i get the impression that using this for desktop linux would be a fucking nightmare. nix (the package manager) would probably be fine, and i'm considering giving nix-darwin a try, but trying to use this for a daily driver seems like it would get frustrating fast. for a server though? feels unbeatable.
good impressions so far. i might share my configuration once i've got something worked out. thanks
