Using nix on the desktop?

[Jasidog]

Just thought I'd see how many of us are using some form of nix on the desktop and what flavours. Even if it's just partial use.

I'd first tried it a couple of years back with Redhat 9 I think it was. To be honest although the install was simple enough i never really got to grips with using it.

Anyhow just very recently I decided to give it another go, having heard a lot about Ubuntu and having tried the liveCD (Where everything just worked out the box. No hardware conflicts etc.) I gave it a go.

So now I'm dual booting with XP and have to say I'm really liking it. I couldn't really leave Windows behind. However as i say, I am really enjoying having Linux as an option.

Things seem to be a lot more user friendly than when I last tried Linux. Particularly one of the things I never got the hang of last time. Installing apps. For most thing you might want which are not there by default it's just a click or two away now. If not there's apt-get, though I know not all distros use the same methods.

Anyhow this time it's pretty pleasurable and I thought I'd see if there's any others here with anything to say.