Most Linux distros evolve. NixOS shows up, cracks its knuckles, and politely questions that entire premise. If you have spent any serious time bouncing between Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and whatever experimental ISO you impulse-downloaded after midnight, you probably feel like you know the rhythm by now. You install packages, tweak configs, break something, fix something, and pretend the breakage was character-building. That muscle memory runs deep. Which is exactly why NixOS feels so weird the first time you bump into it.
