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I'm using Void Linux and see no reason to move over to NixOS. The concept seems cool though.
The nice thing about nix and guix is that they're package managers, and so you get most of the benefits even if you're using a different OS.
I'm currently transitioning from Doom Emacs to my own config that's using guix. So far I've got a single manifest that contains all of the Emacs and Linux packages that are needed to run the config.
The guix part is really simple, but it allows me to reproduce my config on any Linux distro by cloning a repo and running a guix one liner. A different one liner can run it in a containerised environment. Also, I can roll back to any previous time I've updated something through that manifest, or pin a specific version of a package.
And that's just scratching the surface of what you can do.
Yeah, I'm using the Nix package manager for software that isn't in the repositories, on Void.