That is NOT a reason to pick NixOS. You pick NixOS when you want to configure your entire OS via a configuration that you’ve saved in one or more files, potentially in a git repo. No more manual scripting that’ll break a major version down the line.
Copy the repo to another (or new) machine, let the OS setup your configuration and you’re done. You’re back to where you were.
Now, not everything is tracked in that repo, like a stateful browser containing your browser history, etc, but if you can get back 90% to where you were in a single installation - that’s a massive time-saver :D
That is NOT a reason to pick NixOS. You pick NixOS when you want to configure your entire OS via a configuration that you’ve saved in one or more files, potentially in a git repo. No more manual scripting that’ll break a major version down the line.
Copy the repo to another (or new) machine, let the OS setup your configuration and you’re done. You’re back to where you were.
Now, not everything is tracked in that repo, like a stateful browser containing your browser history, etc, but if you can get back 90% to where you were in a single installation - that’s a massive time-saver :D