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One of my work colleagues actually uses Nix on Debian to distribute a piece of software. Though it is software made for a hardware appliance so that's a bit special.
Honestly, unless you're using Nix within something like docker images (Nix has great support for writing really minimal docker images) or use it to just build software (which is also a great use-case), I would rather go straight to NixOS, in my experience it's a smoother experience than using Nix on a different distro and e.g. services (like standalone home-manager) .
He didn't want to make unfamiliar users have a hard time on the management part of the system. If it's just debian then everyone knows how to install syslog forwarding or logrotate or python or whatever they might need to manage the appliance in their environment.