Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
I prefer to come at it from an immediate utility level, and I think a good place to start with that is home-manager.
You can install nix and home-manager on any Linux distribution or MacOs. It lets you, in a single place, specify what packages you want, services you want to run at the user level, and what config files you want in your home directory. For a lot of things, home-manager has built-in config options, but you can also specify arbitrary config files.
Then, you can take this one file to a new computer, and with no other config, have everything set-up the way you like it.
NixOs allows you to do this for your whole system.
It also has a bunch of other benefits, which tie-in to the jargon you bring up. But if you want to check it out, I'd worry about that later.