u/norude1

It's incredibly easy to make a NixOS based distro. If you're using NixOS, you're basically using one already, so why aren't there any preconfigured setups based on NixOS? Omarchy went viral a few month ago just because it was a polished all-in-one experience that's easier to install than using arch and then copying dotfiles over. People are doing this with nix too, but they never distribute them as a full .iso, but rather as a nix config, which if you want to install, you need to already know how to use NixOS well enough that changing the equivalent of hardware-configuration.nix and knowing that you should change it is not hard for you. And if you know how to do that, you don't need a preconfigured setup, you can just make one yourself

Currently to learn nixos, you have to find other people's configs, crawl through the manual the length of a skyscraper, look around the unfinished wiki and watch very good videos from vimjoer.
Why can't you just study the config your system is running? And why is the best source material a YouTube channel not even dedicated to nix? The default config is structured terribly, doesn't use flakes, doesn't set up nix-ld for compatability and causes the same few issues for people just starting. And I understand why the default config shouldn't use nix-ld or flakes. But a community-led NixOS-based distro could easily have a good, modern config with the dendritic pattern and impurities that make sense. Like, imagine how simple a Bazzite but with a NixOS base would be. And how much less limiting