Sir and or madam. You can't uwu claim you send files this getting our hopes up only to dash them right back when we look and behold. No files and thus no uwu for us lowly mortals.

Don't forget the :3

I find it hard to use fetch apps anymore as it doesn't provide much stuff I actually don't know. I know what I co figured, I know what versions I have (I use nh os switch BTW)

I find my grafana dashboard more useful but it's not TUI...

arch stopped being remotely "hard" like 5 years ago. Nix replaced it as the hipster distro hard. Arch is argueably one of the most main stream distros there is at this point thanks to steam OS and cachy.

Nah. We say "Nix fixes that"

But arguably Nix is hard for different reasons and other tradeoffs.

Yeah as great nix is... documentation is hard. But after a year or two you start knowing enough to know where stuff is declared.

But in that case it seems more like they copied without reading the config, and they are just not organized in their configs

... which is fair enough, as I don't have a layout I like either... it's always time to refactor. Even my latest machine needs a refactor, and it's not even been a month...

From what I just read about pacstrap, I think so, yeah, but you can control many more things, like for example you can configure KDE to use wobbly windows¹.

But it's also declarative, rather than just a script.
If you do configure wobbly windows this way, it doesn't just do a find & replace on the respective KWin config file, but rather it generates the entire KWin config file anew, with all the values you defined in your NixOS config + whatever defaults may be needed.

This has the big advantage that it doesn't depend on whatever is currently on disk. It will just make your system match your NixOS configuration in any case.
Disadvantage is that any other KWin settings need to live in your NixOS config from now on, too, i.e. you can't use the graphical settings anymore or they will be overridden on the next nixos-rebuild switch.

Well, and there's other disadvantages to NixOS, like it not using the standard Unix folder structure (FHS), so some programs have problems with that, and that there's at least two different ways to do anything, so it's difficult to find straightforward documentation.

But yeah, if you can push past the pain of learning it and configuring everything initially, it does then work quite nicely.

¹) Requires Home-Manager and Plasma-Manager, and then this line in your Home-Manager config:

programs.plasma.kwin.effects.wobblyWindows.enable = true;

There's nix env but it's imperative so eww