You only have one machine? I benefit from sharing configs between the laptop and the desktop. They are not the same, but I can easily copy paste a complex service I defined in my desktop to do the same thing on my laptop
Because you end up feeling unsatisfied with running the thing until you package it. I don't even understand the Nix language and I still messed around with a couple of packages
Nix has more up to date packages than most distros have packages in total. There's a bot that goes around updating them automatically if they are from github. Maybe there's an issue with your package?
That's absolutely not true. Trump got 74 million votes in 2020 and 77 million votes in 2024. If he got the 2020 numbers he would have lost the popular vote
I discovered they have a Matrix server where people will literally debug your config for you and help you solve issues. But you are right, if you try doing it yourself without help you'll be pulling your hair out
It's less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.