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The most common selling point I hear for Nix is having a list of all the packages you need. On a traditional Linux distro, I just install things and forget about them. A curated, commented list would certainly be handy when I have a new system.

"After I linked difftastic, one of my friends immediately used difftastic to find a stealthy bug, five stars!" https://www.scannedinavian.com/tools-built-on-tree-sitters-concrete-syntax-trees.html

I've started keeping a list of particularly interesting bugs and patches that I've worked on: https://github.com/Wilfred/interesting-code The time that I once removed *a single closing paren* in Emacs is still my favourite.