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[โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I installed some broken Nvidia drivers and lost all video out. I rebooted the PC, selected the previous generation, and voilaโ€ฆ working PC again. On Arch Iโ€™d be debugging it for hours.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Btrfs snapshots and auto snapshots is kind of the same?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years 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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