7 Ways to Maximize Misery

Me too, it's incredible how fast we all found together!

Rather the Gestalt of society

This is the Sway

You sound like the devil trying to trick me out of my souls posession.

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Total amount of Energy consumed

Fork the parent and orphan the child, isolate it's environment and kill it as well, once everything conpleted.

That's awesome!

Now I really want to replicate something similar in a future keyboard I build.

Dependency Hell, begone

You're in a good position to "master" NixOS, but I don't think it'll help you to achieve your goal of getting better at Linux.

NixOS will help you with declarative systems ("mastering" NixOS will help you working with it's sibling Guix for example), but because so many things are specific to the declarative configuration, it won't help you in many other places (not with you current knowledge, apart from functional progamming I guess).

If you want to "master" linux, maybe check out linuxfromscratch.org

Edit 1 (spelling)

I've recently switched over to NixOS in gradual rollouts to my systems:

Stage 0 (~2h):

• Installed NixOS with Gnome on my Laptop for testing an getting a feel for it (I prefer testing on bare-metal initially)
• Tweaked it a bit via the config: removed gnome apps that came with the preset, installed all programs I needed and tested them

Stage 1 (~3d):

• Installed NixOS minimal on my primary system
• Set up sway according to the wiki
• Bodged together something similar to my previous arch setup, mostly my linking old config files with nix to programs installed with nix

Stage 2 (~4d):

• Moved all configs I could from my linked config files to the nix module declarations
• Seperated config file into files ordered as like config-tree
• Achieved a similar working state to my previous arch install
• Moved channel from 22.11 to unstable (rolling release)

Stage 3 (~7d):

• Set up home-manager
• Finally moved all config declarations into nix modules, no non-nix files left in my config
• Also copied the config to my laptop, a single activation and I switched from gnome to sway without any problems

Stage 4 (~21d):

• Looked at a bunch of other peoples system configs
• Recreated everything as a flake, similar to dunklecat's config from sourcehut
• Applied the config to my primay system and laptop
• Wrote a bunch more config modules

Stage 4.5:

• Wrote some tools to make moving around nix easier for me, but mostly to get accustomed to the ecosystem

Stage 5 (~6d):

• Created and applied further system configs for a hetzner server & VMs

Stage 6 (tbd):

• Refining my config
• Adding further modules

Edit 1 (added personal experience): I'm a computer science student and have been using *nix as a daily driver for half a decade, my previous daily driver was arch for about two years. I spend ~1000h/y coding on non-University or Work related projects. I'm at a point where I can typically pick up a the basics of a new language in two to three weeks and write simple programs with it -> library/specific knowledge comes with usage.