I’m wondering what the current favorite distros are besides the most popular ones like Arch, Debian and Fedora.

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    I’m enjoying what Nix does. That said, the learning curve is very steep, and the documentation is very inconsistent and usually poor.

    The repositories for both nixpkgs and nixos are absolutely colossal, which is a huge plus, but their configurations are not listed on the same page, and it can lead to a lot of confusion. Unlike Arch’s PKGBUILD, which practically tell the build system exactly what to do, you’ll have to learn the structure of current configuration files, or the more recent flake system, to setup things how you like.

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          And, even more importantly, https://search.nixos.org/options to figure out which options to set. Always search for options first. “Installing” something by just adding the package to systemPackages etc. is usually the correct thing to do for end-user applications but not for “system things” such as services.

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        That’s technically correct. The “NixOS configuration” tab is sufficient to just install something, however out of ever package I’ve personally used, none of them have listed the available options there. For example: this theme, and what the extra options are

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      the documentation is very inconsistent and usually poor.

      So many excellent projects are crippled by having little but reference docs and scant, over abstracted descriptions.