Michael Stapelberg – Nix in 2025: Why I switched!

Nix Your Bugs is a meetup for people in the Rhein-Neckar region that are interested in Nix (the package manager) or NixOS (the Linux distribution). The meetup begins with talks related to NixOS, and ends with casual networking and exchange between the meetup participants. [Michael Stapelberg](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/) is the inventor and maintainer of the [i3 window manager](https://i3wm.org/), a former [Debian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian) Linux Developer, and creator of the Go appliance platform [gokrazy](https://gokrazy.org/). Having occasionally tried NixOS over the years, Michael finally went all in in 2025 and has published multiple blog posts in the process: - [How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-06-01-nixos-installation-declarative/) - [Migrating my NAS from CoreOS/Flatcar Linux to NixOS](https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-07-13-nixos-nas-network-storage-config/) - [Development shells with Nix: four