The ease of reinstalling is not the main selling point. That’s just one of the (imho many) benefits of having a declarative reproducible configuration.
Many people balk at the nix language, which i think isn’t that hard to learn, But having to learn just one language/syntax instead of knowing each different application’s config syntax is a huge plus for me. Plus you basically get a preprocessor for all configs, which certainly is nice.
Now if you’re not a software developer i can see why that would still be a roadblock. But honestly for a pretty straight forward setup, most of it you can just find on the wiki or other places.
The ease of reinstalling is not the main selling point. That’s just one of the (imho many) benefits of having a declarative reproducible configuration.
Many people balk at the nix language, which i think isn’t that hard to learn, But having to learn just one language/syntax instead of knowing each different application’s config syntax is a huge plus for me. Plus you basically get a preprocessor for all configs, which certainly is nice.
Now if you’re not a software developer i can see why that would still be a roadblock. But honestly for a pretty straight forward setup, most of it you can just find on the wiki or other places.