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I’ve been running NixOS with Flakes as my daily driver for a while. The reproducibility is genuinely impressive — declare your system once, deploy it anywhere. But over time the cognitive overhead started to outweigh the benefits for a single-user setup. Every small config change requires understanding the Nix language, the module system, and whether something is managed by NixOS or Home Manager. I wanted something I could debug with basic Linux knowledge without reaching for the manual. ...