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 Aside from the maintainer drama, I've loved #nixos. 
 I didn't follow the drama, i tried NixOS for a while and I like the concept but in practice it isn't 100% Linux, it's an abstraction and if a software isn't supported you are fucked. 
 Oddly, from a quick read, I decided, wrongly by the looks of it, that it was an early days system with a lot of foibles so I gave up.

I've become comfortable with Manjaro now so I'm probably not going to move until something goes wrong.  
 You have to know the nix language to setup a system; the same language builds packages for the package manager (one of or maybe the most expansive package manager across linux).  It's not hard to build packages.  Pop a nix file in your repo, and anyone can pull & use your app nix style.  Submit a PR and it'll be included in the main public package repo cache.