These two are not the only two options: the nix model is clearly superior and is not as error prone as each.
That being said, for day to day stuff Arch (and Nix standalone) works well enough for me, to be weary of switching my daily driver PC to Nix, out of the fear of dealing with unforeseen issues and maybe encountering less well maintained packages (there's always something broken on Nix unstable, but maybe it's not an issue for more popular stuff). So I'm sticking to Arch for non-servers for now.
Here we talk about a tiny percent of the tiny 3% of desktop users.
If you're going to be snide, you should at least be correct - or are the 6300 users in the main matrix chat room just hanging out for fun?
(sent from my nixos daily driver)
Hell, even in a Linux-only context too. I mean, an exchange like:
- We're shipping this enterprise software in packages compatible with RHEL and Ubuntu, would it be worth our while to also devote resources to specifically support Arch too?
- Nah, nobody uses Arch
While not accurate to the maximum possible precision (something like say 5% of Linux users is not the same as 0%), it would still be quite understandable...