• something_random_tho@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

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        8 months ago

        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

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          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?

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        8 months ago

        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.