Last time I didn’t upgrade for a long while some drivers broke, maybe I’ll just switch to NixOS this time since it seems interesting. Does anyone here use NixOS? What do you think about it?
I am using NixOS and have used Arch before. Its great. No dependency hell, superb config management (with home manager) and builtin rollbacks. But the nix language is somewhat arcane. Error messages are only somewhat helpful and docs are really lacking. NixOS also uses quite the amount of disk space in its store. Would only recommend NixOS if youre a resourceful programmer (or not)
PS. Ive never had arch break any drivers on me, or any upgrade failing (unless a package itself is borked, but they usually put out posts for this). But my systems all amd, ymmv
Most likely, nothing will happen. Arch breaking if you don’t updating 5x a day is more of a meme than a reality.
I’ve updated a client’s Arch server that hadn’t been touched for years, and it went just fine.
You’re the user, you’re in control, you’re empowered to make sure it won’t break after the update, you’re empowered to fix it if it does.
I update my arch computer maybe once a month for years and it works fine.
