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    I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much (lemmy.world)
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    [–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I'm quite excited but also mildly worried about Arch. I am currently on EndeavourOS, so I'm used to day-to-day usage of an Arch-based system, but I do worry about not following some best practices that screw me over in the long run during the install or forgetting some crucial security things. I do believe 95% of what I could mess up is going to be covered in the install guide, but who knows what I'll overlook. And I know Archinstall exists, but I might as well stay on EOS if I was gonna use that, as I primarily intend this to be a learning opportunity. We'll see how things go!

    [–] SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    I agree. I think that's why nix-os is getting so popular these days.

    I love the idea of declarative system builds even beyond just reproducability. The idea that you can essentially make your own distro without much difficulty is really cool.

    Plus all the benefits of roll backs, light backups, etc.

    Plus if you can dig deep enough you can craft a system that never breaks by pinning certain versions.

    One of these days I want to check it out. As well as LFS. Oh but for the want of time.

    [–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

    About NixOS specifically, I actually made a post on !linux@lemmy.ml and overall the feedback seemed to be that Nix is a mixed bag, and that unless you want to duplicate your system a bunch of times, it's probably smarter to stick to Arch, and a few people said I should use immutable Fedora for some reason despite that not being the question.