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@charlotte uhh uhh it's pretty difficult to get started.. but also like so worth it
it's also why i am no longer an emacs user
@charlotte yeah that makes sense, and really the documentation isn't great (yet). You have to learn Nix (a functional programming language) and then all the NixOS stuff to apply that. I can gather some of the beginner stuff I used when I get home if you want
NixOS resources, kinda long 
@Vierkantor there's definitely a lot of abstract/mathematical base to Nix/NixOS but I know nothing of those, instead using it more pragmatically myself. The original research papers it's based on might be interesting to you too:
https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-final.pdf
https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
To learn Nix there's this guide, https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/why-you-should-give-it-a-try.html (especially chapter 4 for the language basics)
Getting a simple running system into a vm is rather easy, it's just partitioning, generating a default config, then installing that.
Lastly there's various Matrix rooms by the project that can be quite helpful (and actually nice, techbros are kept in check) #nix:nixos.org is the main room for questions
@f0x @charlotte i still want to get into nixos, so could I also take you up on that offer please?
i'd love to trade it for some explanation/documentation if you're interested: my expertise is interactive theorem proving, I know a lot of maths (especially logic and abstract algebra) and CS (especially programming languages) and did a few linguistics courses.