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That is, until your distro releases an update and you're like "what do you mean the update failed? So does that mean the update script rolled the changes back?" and then you find out your entire system is in a half updated state and you need to clean install
To be fair, with btrfs and whatever snapshot tool your distro has, you can make any distro just about impossible to fuck up.
Is this one of those Arch things that I'm too immutable to relate to?
Ever heard of btrfs snapshots and immutable?
I just keep my home folder backed up safely. The software installed doesnβt really matter to me since I can redownload things pretty quickly
Yes, that's why I'd like to run something as clean as NixOS. For now my compromise is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's btrfs snapshots.
I'm in an interesting place because I installed tumbleweed as a server. At some point there was a change to networking and when I updated, networking didn't work anymore, so I had to roll back to just before the update. I don't want to start from scratch, and I don't want to either bring a screen to it and troubleshoot what's going on again. I tried in the past, and after a few hours of getting nothing (everything should be fine, it just doesn't send or receive anything), I rolled it back and walked away. I have a feeling I just need to run yast and reconfigure there after updating, I just don't want to go through the effort of fixing it because it still runs fine.