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SuSE in 1996. Then Debian between mid-1997 and late 2023, NixOS since.
I'm not a big distrohopper...
Why NixOS? I've been using Debian since Slink and am interested to hear, what made you move?
Not the guy who first commented, but NixOS is fun because you can have the whole config in a git repo, and can easily reproduce. Main drawback is that Nix as a language is insane and that a lot of packages still aren’t available
While I am not a fan of Nix the language, it is no more insane than ansible or kubernetes yaml soups.
As for packages... nixpkgs is by far the largest repo of packaged software. There are very few things I haven't found there - and they are usually not in any other distro either.