(don't know if arch supports this natively now but) declarative package managment is why j started using it... having ansible/terraform basically be a part of the os is great for me because a reinstall of the current running system just means i copy my configuration.nix and i'm back to where i was but fresh...
another thing is build isolation (you can have clashing dependencies without issues because each package specifically links to the dependencies it needs)... it does kind of bloat the disk a bit, but it also shares dependencies of the same version across packages so it's not like flatpack (if i understand that correctly)
(don't know if arch supports this natively now but) declarative package managment is why j started using it... having ansible/terraform basically be a part of the os is great for me because a reinstall of the current running system just means i copy my configuration.nix and i'm back to where i was but fresh...
another thing is build isolation (you can have clashing dependencies without issues because each package specifically links to the dependencies it needs)... it does kind of bloat the disk a bit, but it also shares dependencies of the same version across packages so it's not like flatpack (if i understand that correctly)