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Don't say sorry for making an actual argument, or are you some Canadian lol?
According to this list there are 3470 maintainers. Were those 15 doing so much work to warrant calling it the end of days?
A possible delay for some package updates vs certainly outdated packages in my native Debian. Not really a choice IMO
I guess it depends on what you're planning doing with NixOS or Aux. I wouldn't use it for anything new and critical. I'd figure out a mitigation strategy if I were relying on it for something critical.
But for experimental purposes, neither option seems like a bad call.
I've been tempted for a while to switch from good old reliable Arch (btw) to NixOS, but now I'm glad I procrastinated and just ran it in a little VM specimen jar instead.