The list of things I miss from other operating systems is very small at this point. There are so many good open source projects.
For software development, my NixOS environment is Nirvana.
Valve has put the Linux gaming community on their back, and now many games are running better in Proton than on their native OS.
For artistic stuff, there are a lot of good open source options, but many industry standard tools do not support Linux.
If I had to choose something, I wish Cubase or other industry standard DAWs would support Linux.
I suppose we also miss out on some industry standard scientific software like SolidWorks.
Or maybe there is some tool that doesn’t exist anywhere yet. What do you think?
I completely agree about NixOS docs. On top of that, Nix is a pretty challenging language to read at times. Even with the Nil language server, I can’t do basic things like get return type annotations or tag to symbols outside my own workspace. And so I rely a lot on community examples before resorting to reading NixOS/nixpkgs source code.
Even with those obstacles, I still find NixOS to be the best option, because I have a config that does everything I need already, and I can experiment with confidence that it won’t break.