NixOS does let you do that, but somehow I goofed it so hard I couldn’t even do that. Most of the time my issues arrived when tinkering with the bootloader, so outcomes like that are to be expected.
100% I’m biased, you chuck a person who can’t swim into the deep end and they’ll be terrified of water for life. With Arch being my first distro, this sorta thing happened to me. I just skipped the usual debian-based stepping stones new Linux users traverse. You’re totally right though, you can have a reliable system with almost anything debian-based. But again, for me I can’t use debian due to the old packages. I have tried it, didn’t like it. I like Fedora, it’s not reliable enough for me. Fedora Atomic fixes that.
This is not astroturfing though. Just me and my views based on past experiences.
Warp lost me at the account requirement. You’re telling me I need to sign in to a terminal? Seriously? Like with an internet connection? Nope. What if I’m opening my terminal to configure my network? Warp seems to be fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. I don’t think anyone has looked at a terminal emulator and gone “Yeah, this could use AI and a cloud account”.