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  • That's the neat part, you don't

    That’s the neat part, you don’t need to. You can just install any Linux distro and not upgrade. Obviously bad for security but you aren’t forced to upgrade ever.

    My server is running a Debian-like and I’ve found release updates to be the most nerve racking process ever. Updating package repos and waiting for the whole system to refresh all the packages and fussing over what needs backports because a package is not in the new release repo… I dread it every year.

    For arch I just have a snapper pacman hook to automatically create snapshots for my btrfs system so I can roll back if an update is just not working. Then just wait a few days and try again.










  • I adore the idea of nix. I fucking hate the syntax with a passion.

    oh use the .packages but only for this else use a flake and if you want dot files there is this other completely different thing with home manager but if you want this extra config customization or a custom system script then you need to make a derrivatio…

    its so damn exhausting.

    I just want a list of packages.

    That I can put in modules.

    And turn them on and off based on the computer I’m on.

    And if they are on they should use these dots.

    And not look like a spaghetti bowl made of curly braces sourced from json derulos left buttock.

    And the system should also have some additional sbctl hooks because we still have not figured out that dracut generated initramfs files don’t get purged from the database so I have to have a custom hook to not get error messages every time I paru ahahahAAHAHA…

    anyway dcli exists and is a fine middle ground.