It’s too retro for me, I grew up playing vga graphic games

But appimages will complain about unmet dependencies, so usually they don’t work

Activating services is the specific task NixOS is great at, you can just add it and it downloads the packages and starts it and generates the configs

It’s less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.

Package your own if you need it

Yes, the systems people actually use vs every system that exists

You run the script that generates hardware config file for you, it’s literally one command

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?

If you download a binary you can just steam-run it and it just works

I don’t know why your browser would report itself as a linux browser just because it’s behind a proxy or VPN

I’ll wait for Proton++ or Proton#

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

NixOS by far has the most momentum right now.

Just check the non-unique package counts:

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique

More than 80K packages that exist in other distros, more than all of packages in AUR combined with 90%+ being the newest version in unstable

And you can run unstable without an issue since you can downgrade individual packages whenever

I upgraded LTS versions and it failed and left my system in a broken state I couldn’t fix

It’s doing great unless you want to debug why chromium is not connecting to your USB devices

Hint: because they forced snap in you which doesn’t support USB access

SteamOS is a full fat Linux distro. I use the desktop mode every day

Flathub is not blocked

There aren’t really home-grown alternatives