Nix currently has the most packages of any distribution, see https://repology.org/
The model of having packages on Github with pull requests scales very well.
Therefore, you could argue that people are getting things done with Nix.
The model of having packages on Github with pull requests scales very well.
Therefore, you could argue that people are getting things done with Nix.
This is a meaningless point. Different distros split packages differently.
However it is clear that the Nix folks are quite productive with maintaining packages. So that statement is judgemental, as it implies that all those packages are not ‘the right things to get done’.
At least, that's my personal experience.
With Nix I usually ended up in a situation where I had to both figure out how to configure my environment _and_ fix the upstream Nix packages. At that point it’s just easier to stick to Homebrew and some custom shell scripts.