NixOS users, what experiences tripped you up at first?
I'm looking to write or contribute to an onboarding guide, where some Linux experience is assumed (like for someone who uses Arch/Debian/Ubuntu).
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@nbathum server outage on the exact evening when I was migrating from #archlinux to NixOS in 2013. :D
Seriously though, not much. Reading Eelco's papers and multi output expressions design documents and literally any #NixFlakes blog post should be a nice way to get solid foundations over a weekend.
As noobs interact more and more with the language, #NixPills is a decent series to build up the language understanding.
@nbathum Full disclosure: I switched from #NixOS to #Ubuntu with #Nix, in the wake of half-measure breaking changes around 2019.