Well, on the desktop. As someone using it as such since 2000 or so, it never took off like it deserves imo.
> where n > 1
I guess this is where I lack experience, thanks. I just run single user locally. It feels like containers/kube won the n>1 market.
Having managed many thousands of hosts over the years, I’ve longed for something like nixos. Managing largeish scale infra is not what I do these days, but nixos still appeals to me, and I use it for a few pi’s, a nas and my workstation.
I’ve never tinkered less with my machines, and I love it.
With nixos ad-hoc tinkering is not “the way”, and using a shell.nix for different project folders is just awesome. I imagine this could help scale dev teams as well.