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    21 days ago

    That is, until your distro releases an update and you’re like “what do you mean the update failed? So does that mean the update script rolled the changes back?” and then you find out your entire system is in a half updated state and you need to clean install

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      21 days ago

      until your distro releases

      That’s saved my ass soooo many times. I now screw with X or Wayland to my hearts content, change 2-3-10 things at a time. ohh something didn’t work? reboot!

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      21 days ago

      I just keep my home folder backed up safely. The software installed doesn’t really matter to me since I can redownload things pretty quickly

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            20 days ago

            And then you’ll wonder why the game that used to run in Wine doesn’t run anymore

            Not only that, programs just break by themselves. LocalSend broke because some deps broke. I use versions that I’ve verified to work. Being able to revert and just use my computer is a godsend.

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            21 days ago

            It’s not even fully immutable, but it has a lot of the protections of it. The declaritive part is pretty hot and the package system is expansive and extremely safe.

            it’s also really nice to be able to commit new changes without rebooting.

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                20 days ago

                Not everything in the config paths are in the store.

                None of the users are in the store

                Any users can run arbitrary binaries as long as they’re not dynamically linked.

                Root can permanently add and remove arbitrary stuff to/from the store at run time.

                It’s pretty good in a lot of ways you can’t modify hosts and you can’t throw stuff into cron, but a great deal of Nixos is mutable.