Exactly, I have been a huge distro hopper to the point that having the same install for a month was already at the high end (though I did keep my home partition

Exactly, I have been a huge distro hopper to the point that having the same install for a month was already at the high end (though I did keep my home partition). Now I have 2 years old NixOS installs on personal machines and they do not get bloated with packages that the package manager can no longer handle, and is basically always at a state as if it were freshly installed. It just “feels right”. To me, that makes the occasional edge cases worthwhile to suffer through (some binary package, mostly) - especially that in most cases something like steam-run is enough to make it work. When it isn’t, systemd-nspawn can boot you into any systemd distro you would want.