Are there any distributions that offer benefits post-installation?

I am aware of Arch (and some other relevant distributions) having access to the AUR, and would like to know if other distributions can offer anything other than a quicker set-up.

  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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    9 days ago

    Awkwardly looks at NixOS

    • Complete configuration based on declarative options.
    • Home Manager for declarative home directory management.
    • Nix Flakes for reproducibility and templating
    • devShells for programming.
    • Easy deployment on multiple machines, declarative disk partitioning with disko.
    • Is incredibly trivial to switch desktop environments (KDE -> GNOME takes only a few lines, or you can have both).
    • Releases every 6 months for a stable release, offers an unstable channel to live like an Arch user without all the fear of breaking anything you couldn't undo via the boot menu.
    • Largest set of packages (over 80,000) that is contributed to every day.

    NixOS is the most rewarding distribution to stick with, even though starting with it can be rough.

      • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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        9 days ago

        You should watch vimjoyers series on NixOS as an introduction since he goes over a lot of the essential basics that may trip newcomers up.

        • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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          9 days ago

          Already started, actually.

          Also, considering that I don't want to manually re-partition a partition that I have already prepared for Linux on one of my drives, I think I will actually be starting with NixOS.