NixOS Learning Curve

#NixOS

There is a common belief that NixOS has a steep learning curve. I don't quite agree with that.

The key is not that NixOS is "hard," but that its declarative configuration approach is different from other Unix-like systems. While the basics are still the same, they are just framed differently.

Having very basic system administration skills and internet I've managed to a very basic NixOS home lab with flakes, secret management via SOPS, samba, network config, avahi, and auto-updates for just a couple of days.