> It certainly is causing more pain than it's solving.

My middle ground approach has been to use containers and fall back to a more traditional Linux approach within those containers when I don’t want to be bothered (or just don’t need) to figure out the Nix Way.

If it’s something that’s core to my daily setup, I’ll still invest the time to bake it into my NixOS config, but using fallbacks like this has been a good middle ground for me that allows me to take advantage of the best parts of NixOS without adding undue pain when spinning up experiments.