I'm not sure what type of software you're talking about, but Linux native software usually works with 'steam-run', which is really the "pretend to be Ubuntu" command.
The original post mentions several examples where he ran into friction. (Monitoring/tracking software, pinentry-kwallet, playwright, tableplus).
A popular escape hatch for NixOS (or other immutable distros) for commandline tools is distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Another good tip mentioned on the NixOS wiki FAQ is nix-ldd with the dependencies from steam-run.
Still. The benefit of having a declared system configuration does come with the cost of having to put in that effort up front; and a steeper learning curve for knowing how to get around those difficulties compared to more typical distros.
There's also nix-ld [2], which allows you to directly run unpatched binaries.
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi...
[2] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=progr...