Earlier this year, I decided it was time for a change in my setup. After a year on Linux Mint with i3, things were solid but starting to show cracks. Gaming was better than ever thanks to Proton, but Xorg wasn’t cutting it. My Ansible-managed dotfiles repo was working, but the workstations were slowly drifting out of sync. Apt was still rock solid, but packages were often outdated or missing entirely. Arch Linux vs NixOS: Arch had the hype, the rolling updates, the endless tinkering. NixOS had the reproducibility, the rebuilds, the peace of mind. I knew which side of that fight I wanted to be on - and my love for declarative setups made NixOS the obvious pick. ...