I love nix. I started on flakes and have no clue what configuration.nix, channels, or nix-env even are.

Its pretty much a toolchain to orchestrate a bunch of community bash scripts with some (optional) syntax sugar to do most things right in nix.

Scripts break. So did my own when I left the sandbox of any other distros curated version set. Now its version controlled and I can rollback.

Functional programming skills are helpful. The documentation is shit. Like really really bad. I had to go through a few lib/ src to figure out modules. It just wasn’t clicking until I did with the abstractions until I looked at the code.

I mostly search GitHub now a days for solutions with lang:nix and some tokens I know I’ll need and analyze what someone else did.

I look at the source for package defs often.

The repl can be handy.