Someone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don’t know about its developments atm.

I’m running it under podman within NixOS using compose2nix on a rpi5.

I’d rather use the default NixOS option (services.immich.enable), but nixpkgs-unstable doesn’t have all arm64 binaries prebuilt and building those can take a long time.

Nix with nix-output-monitor (nom). https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor

It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying.

I haven’t seen this in other package managers.