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This sounds pretty good. Like Gentoo and Arch mixed depending on what you're installing? Gonna read up more on it when I have time. I just scanned their website quickly and they did sound a lot like Gentoo.
Yeah, I mean I switched to it from arch because it felt so messy doing upgrades, testing graphics drivers, kernel patches, etc on a mutable system. I would have to use filesystem snapshots to have any chance of rolling things back sanely.
NixOS makes it very low risk and easy to do system changes like that.