Post #4162579
2026-07-28 11:38 UTC
Just install a distro that doesn’t fail like that by overwriting system files on a whim. You’re saying that you’re going from an arch based system (which are prone to get weird errors every few weeks), to NixOS, which has at the very least a steep learning curve. My assessment is that you are asking for trouble yourself. I know that Debian-stable sounds boring, but it never breaks like that. If you’re truly burnt out as you say, you would go with the safe, unglamorous solution. I used to tinker with Linux all the time (I started on slackware in 1998), now I just run Mint on laptops, and Debian on my PCs. I just don’t want bad surprises anymore, I’m at an age that the OS needs to work as expected.
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@ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2026-07-28 11:48
Thing is every time I read about Nix I get a bit excited about it and I just read smth about it before posting this. Tho I do have bad experience with breaking a franken debian install once way back when :D I’ll obvs do research and maybe some distro hopping before deciding on the next thing, but imma chill for a while now. Specially cause I slept kinda bad because my brain kept trying to fix the distro in bed >< That suicide did a number on me