I am currently completing my bachelor’s degree in computer science. Once this is finished, I will begin a master’s program. I assume this information is not really helpful to you, sorry.

Well, let’s put it this way: I sleep in the same room :)

Yes

It’s nice not to have to fit everything into 1U or 2U enclosures, and yes, also a bit of future-proofing.

Top (my desktop)

• AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (no dGPU, because I do 90% of my work in the terminal)
• 1 TB NVME
• 32 GB DDR5
• NixOS

Bottom (server)

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
• 8 GB RAM DDR4
• in total 4 TB NVME
• NixOS

(nvme and noctua only)

I have to say as someone who uses NixOS I love systemd, because it makes a lot of things very easy. For example hardening services ( systemd-analyze security) or replacing cron (system timer).