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That seems to be even more convoluted and complex.
"Just one more abstraction layer, I swear!"
I'm a NixOS noob bytheway, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think the difference is the level it's happening at. As I said, I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like a simple, unfussy and minimal distribution that you then add functionality to via configuration. Having that declarative configuration means it's easy to test new setups, roll back changes and even easily create modified configuration for other servers.
I use nixos on my homeserver, but I'm looking to switch it to Void as well. For me personally I just realized that it's easier to set everything up with shell scripts and docker-compose. But that's just my personal experience, by all means go ahead and try out nixos if you have the time. It has lots of unique features that you can't replicate with "just a bunch of shell scripts". This video does a great job of selling nixos. Maybe my favourite part of nixos is how they make "shortcuts" for a lot of common tasks. For example, setting up a letsencrypt ssl certificate for your webserver with autorenewal can be done in just two lines of config.