i use arch (btw), and i hate how much i depend on the AUR, its very unstable. I switched to flatpak for my gui programs since the cli experience sucks. nix on the other hand works like a native package manager, and thats great for me. but i see that nix also includes stuff like coreutils (because of nixos im guessing). do i install everything with nix? if not what packages do i install with pacman and which with nix?
I use Nix for CLI programs on most distros I use. In my configuration I have all the programs I want on distros other than NixOS in home-manager so that I can use it on any system and have my personal shell setup.