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Is nix already "normie" compatible? It has to become much easier.
I really like home manager but even that is too difficult right now.
Same for flatpak, it's on a good path but there is still lots of room for improvement
Complex things that someone has already done are infinitely easier in nixos - stuff like having zfs as root filesystem is literally two lines in the config (and the magic is that it is very, very hard to break).
Complex things that are your own edge case will make you want to pull your hair out - I wanted to run immich on a raspberry pi 5 with native 16k page size, long story short, I still don't have immich.
On the other hand, if by "normie" you mean "running a browser and some flatpaks", nixos is likely the best distro that will work right out of the box - the graphical installer will generate a good config, the out of the box hardware support is the best in my experience, breakage is almost impossible. Automatic updates will not work though and there's no gui that will prompt you to do so at all.
That's probably a disqualifying feature for laypeople-suitability. "Normies" ad in "non-techies" won't easily dare touch the command line and certainly not think of frequently using it to check for updates, but not having any security updates is a bad idea.
The one exception here: it's great to have it installed on your parents' PC when you're the one doing the update once in a while when you are around. Rock solid in between, no nagging, and if something did break, easy to roll back.