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What if something happened to you? (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/nix

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I'm working through some necessary issues in VMs as I work towards dropping Windows, but it occurred to me that I should pick a distro my non-techy partner could use in the event that something catastrophic happens to me. I really like the declarative/immutable distros, but perhaps something more traditional with btrfs snapshots would be better suited to such a use case...?

It's no secret that NixOS has a steep learning curve, but do any of you share a NixOS PC with family/partners/etc.? If so, what has that experience been like? Could they take over admin if you were incapacitated?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There was a good post on planning for your death recently, with links to a Github guide. It's not NixOS specific, but might be helpful :)

!https://lemmy.ml/post/17898296

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Neat, thanks! I'll check it out. I'm not expecting anything to happen, but it would be really sucky if I left my family in the lurch or locked out of necessary things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a community for this very discussion?

It definitely comes up in self-hosting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I haven't seen one, but it would be very handy :)