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I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I installed some broken Nvidia drivers and lost all video out. I rebooted the PC, selected the previous generation, and voila… working PC again. On Arch I’d be debugging it for hours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Btrfs snapshots and auto snapshots is kind of the same?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NixOS can be managed with Git and you can bring your old environment to a new PC without reloading a full snapshot. Config and data are kept separate when you use Nix to handle the config

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not a developer myself; what benefits does that give me? I know it's repeatable on different hardware or equal across machines, but wat else would be a win to pick Nix? Immutable so its a pretty static experience?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

For most use-cases, yes. I wouldn't want to use any distro without simple rollback anymore. This boils down to Fedora Atomic, NixOS, or btrfs + any distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Agreed. Lifesaver tool many times as a average Linux nerd for about 2-3 years now.