How exactly was AnduinOS born……

AnduinOS maintainer Anduin (a Microsoft .NET engineer) clarified that the project is a personal hobbyist work, not a commercial venture. Its core concept draws inspiration from NixOS's "build from scratch" philosophy, creating a Linux distribution with a Windows-like interaction style by modifying the Ubuntu ISO and integrating personalized configurations. This aims to solve the pain point of manual configuration after reinstalling the system while maximizing the reuse of the Ubuntu ecosystem. The author emphasized that the project's original intention was simply to satisfy personal usage habits; for instance, the app store was not preinstalled only because it was personally unnecessary, and the subsequent introduction of flatpak was based on isolation requirements. Although the project has sparked controversy due to its "low development cost," its success stems precisely from this purity. The author has refused venture capital and donations, insisting on open-source transparency to refute malicious conspiracy theories, and acknowledged the risks of single-person maintenance while promising to continue investing effort. The value of AnduinOS lies in maintaining its non-commercial authenticity, serving as an after-work pastime for an engineer rather than pursuing profit or complex features, which makes it unique and sincere in the commercialized software market.