I'm very tempted to go back to NixOS.

S.T. Veje

I was really loving NixOS until it started crashing because of a buggy update to the AMD GPU driver, and rolling back means rolling back the entire system, not just the one faulty package.

So I tried Linux Mint, again, but frankly I don't like it. I miss KDE.

So I tried Debian, again, and instantly remembered why I never liked Debian.

Maybe I should try Arch? Idk. I'm afraid of another disappointment.

Why is this so hard?

#Linux #NixOS

Jay :nixos:

@stveje I'm not sure why the rollback would be that much of a problem?

Not trying to be harsh here, but Arch (and any other distro) is going to be a disappointment too if you aren't properly learning how to admin your system so stuff like a bad driver update isn't going to cause you to give up and reformat.

Even if you wanted to avoid the rollback and had to reformat, what stopped you from reformatting your nixos install and just checking out your nixos contig from git right before the amd gpu upgrade and reinstalling from that if you didn't want to just rollback? You were using git, right?

If you decide to go the arch route (or CachyOS as I have, arch-based), I really recommend setting up with btrfs and lumine bootloader so you have similar functionality as nixos's rollbacks and keeping your /etc and home configs in git as well so if you need to reinstall, you can get back up and running fast.