Gettin' really tired of your shit, Debian

Bit of a non response mate.
NixOS has a reason for not using LSB, you can't do what NixOS does with the standard filesystem layout.
NixOS deprecates docker, static binaries, comes with atomic updates and rollbacks, I would say it's worth it.

NixOS seems really cool, but I just feel like the abstraction is eventually gonna come back to bite me in the ass, that's the only thing keeping me away from it really.

heh, I bet you haven't tried to change the init on a systemdick distro.

pick one, but not both

Arch compiles nearly every option in its packages and it's debatable whether the base group is minimal or not. btrfs has had scary bugs, so i don't want to use it on my system. In last January, audacity (in the official arch repos, not aur) package didn't have a valid signature for a week. And finally, AUR is just an over glorified dump of shell scripts. Some of them are good but others are bad and/or abandoned. Also, Gentoo overlays are better in every way.

Interesting, sounds a bit like gobolinux.

What were these? I've been considering using btrfs in the near future.

Binaries, scripts, makefiles. etc.
But don't worry you can patch them :^)

And there's no drawbacks right. I feel like I've wandered into /g/ here.
I'm just imagining OP reading this and being like yeah atomic updates then trying to get a vidya game working.

Last I recall, if you use RAID 5 or 6, they're was or is a good chance of it skull fucking your data. RAID 0,1, and 10 were fine. Frankly I wouldn't ever use RAID 5 or 6 anyways, I prefer 100% redundancy. I'm sure there were other problems, but I haven't been following it closely for about a year because it was taking so fucking long that I just said fuck it and use ZFS now because I'm a disgusting digital packrat.

Actually, NixOS comes with a Steam "macro" that pulls pretty much everything you need into a FHS chroot, called steam-run. You can use that command for pretty much any binary that hard depends on a standard directory structure.

kill yourself brand loyalist

It's being used to run non-Steam Godot games. Joke's on you.