I was hoping you'd have lots of answers to this as I've been curious too. I did actually install it on a NUC I don't use for much, but I still don't use it much...

sadly, nada

I installed some personal vps instances with nixos, some time later felt it was time to install it on my main system, and since then haven't looked back even once

Right now I'm trying to learn *enough* to get a basic familiar desktop environment going. Once I've managed that I'll consider what to do afterwards.

I did exactly this a couple weeks ago using qemu. I've uploaded my scripts, which might save you some time if you choose to go a similar route: git.sr.ht/~yaymukund/nixos-v…