If you think you have ever felt true fear, you havent tried Gentoo yet
Can’t relate. I update compulsively every 2 hours on average.
Why would you run -Syyu? -Syu is what you want 99% or the time.
One day maybe I’ll understand why people are fine with package managers that have you sweat if you’re updating whenever the heck you want rather than often and with a second pair of eyes on the news
There are too many in the Linux dev community who cling to their old concepts, even if they are objectively worse. Hell, 99% of distros still don’t even come with disaster recovery preconfigured; OpenSuse are the only ones I know where you don’t need to be a professional to revert back to a working state in case something broke. This conservatism as well as elitism (nobody needs the new stuff if everyone just gets good and becomes a CLI magician, right?) in the community is holding us back horribly, and it shows.
With nix it’s easy to revert, if you keep your previous config. Version it with git and it’s really easy.
“It’s easy with tool that requires extensive knowledge. Do it with another tool that requires extensive knowledge and it’s even easier.”
You just showed everyone the elitism I was talking about, thank you.
You talked about linux devs not embracing change and then promptly shit on NixOS for not understanding it lol
Isn’t using a rolling distro, without updating it at least every couple of days (or even every single day) a big security risk?
Not any more or less than doing the same on a “stable” distribution.
