My Linux Odyssey: How I Ended Up on NixOS

Last updated: 21 July 2026 A personal account of distro-hopping, window managers, and eventually finding NixOS. Part 1: How It All Started I started using Linux about four years ago. My very first distribution was Fedora, followed by Ubuntu, which I used for about a month before switching back. The main reason I left Ubuntu was its interface; I simply didn&rsquo;t like it. But beneath that was a…