this is presumably why guix calls itself "an advanced packaging management system". if you don't want to futz around with that kind of thing theres always ubuntu which mostly just works and even comes prebaked with activedirectory support so you can argue with your IT department about it :)

> now keep redoing something slightly different every fortnight and enjoy your constantly half-broken system.

Yeah, if any of that is even remotely true then something is horribly wrong with your system.

I only yet this once every 6 months. And the issues are resolved in minutes following the printed instructions (as opposed to crawling through arch wiki or whatever).

Most of the time the deprecations require no action on my part, I simply rather keep things tidy and make the warnings go away.

> In a way, it’s reassuring to see that niche Linux distributions have changed so little in the decade since I last used one.

You are misunderstanding what I am saying. The situation is very different. There are still Linux/Wayland/NVidia/Whatever issues, but configuring NixOS is not among them.

What exactly is the point of this comment? You haven’t even tried the distro, was assumed something wrongly, and then double down on it?