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User/maintainer here. I don't think NixOS is for everyone, but if you're the kind of person it's for, you'll be stuck with us forever. I would definitely recommend giving it a shot if the concept sounds appealing, and feel free to drop by the Matrix channels if you need any help figuring things out - documentation is currently not our strong suit, though people are working on it.
Ayyy nice to see you've moved over too.
I'm surprised you haven't noticed me screaming about Lemmy in #offtopic for like three days straight lol
He, while we're on the topic of documentation, if people want to help the effort, where should they look for a start? I am still new to Nix but love it so far and in the distant future I could see myself writing docs. Is there a place where people organize doc writing?
#docs:nixos.org on Matrix maybe?
Can attest, this guy is always around in the matrix and has not once failed to help me out