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An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean like nixos-unstable, the rolling release channel of NixOS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well yeah obviously like NixOS. My reason for not using it is that they use a non standard Linux filesystem and it renders a # of packages I want to install incompatible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In that case, couldn't you just use something like btrfs snapshots + Timeshift to pull this off?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah you could put some together I think, possibly with OverlayFS as well.

I feel like the value those distros add is not just the rolling mechanism but the package manager being tied into it.

So you just use the package manager like any other and it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Which packages?

  1. Check nixpkgs unstable, they might have been added in the last few months before stable release
  2. Try steam-run, it will run binaries like you're in a normal distro

I ended up packaging the thing myself, actually. The best part is my pull request was approved and I was able to contribute my work