The time sink thing is a trade off. You spend more time up front configuring some aspect of your system. But then you generally don't have to ever think about i

The time sink thing is a trade off. You spend more time up front configuring some aspect of your system. But then you generally don't have to ever think about it again, until your needs change. For example: Ubuntu: a problem needs solving -> spend an hour learning how to solve it -> implement solution -> a year goes by -> new machine -> same problem -> spend an hour because you forgot the solution -> implement it again NixOS: problem -> spend 2 hours -> implement -> never repeat again