Oh yeah, I had just heard about Talos Linux the other day in this blog post[0], and it seems super interesting. If I was all-in on Kubernetes, I'd probably consider it strongly. Unfortunately, though, there's other stuff that I want to run on the machines outside of the k8s cluster (like the BIND server I mentioned in the post).
I have since switched to Talos Linux, as the management is more "kubernetes-native" than using NixOS.
Talos Linux: https://www.talos.dev/