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Last time I didn’t upgrade for a long while some drivers broke, maybe I’ll just switch to NixOS this time since it seems interesting. Does anyone here use NixOS? What do you think about it?

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

(Disclaimer that I’m still new-ish to Linux)

I just went about a year between EndeavorOS updates on a laptop and uhh… it wasn’t happy. I just installed Kubuntu which hopefully will be more forgiving haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get why so many folks try niche stuff when the tried and proven solution is out there.

Tumbleweed, excellent support for KDE, rolling, great defaults, snapshots out of the box, lots of support/documentation, OBS...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snapshots require btrfs though, don't they?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, you are correct