Still less cursed than Gentoo with Ansible

Gentoo with Ansible
Excuse me...
- Sounds pretty great to me honestly... Might spin up vm this weekend and give it a shot!
  Thought let's be honest, I've grown kinda lazy in my old age and compiling kernels is kinda a pain if you don't need to so I dont know if I'll actually use it for anything

I wanted to play around with a project that uses Nix... it seemed really cool but I couldn't get it working, I guess I was throwing myself in at the deep end with it
It looks like a fantastic way of sharing a dev environment across a team
- It is a fantastic way to make sure things work across a team. We use Linux (bunch of different distro) and macOS at my company and once I started packaging things with nix environment related issues mostly went away. It's not perfect and it's not necessarily easy to learn nix, but I prefer it to sharing docker containers or other alternatives.

Never had to use state so far, so I don’t know. Makes some sense for a personal config I guess, but afaic it’s never been necessary
- Well state includes (for most configs I've seen) the persistence of user paswords, known_hosts, wifi auth, /home, /var, nix-channels, nixos-generations, disk encryption passwords, secrets in general, docker/podman, VMs, ...