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Re:My NixOS Desktop Flow by danieldk on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:10AM (#22986553)
This is a benefit, but other distributions are catching up. For example, Fedora Silverblue has an immutable root filesystem and provides atomic upgrades/rollbacks through OSTree. Ubuntu 20.04 supports making ZFS snapshots as an APT pre-installation hook and thus also support rollbacks.
Re:My NixOS Desktop Flow by pkulak on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:16PM (#22988954)
And don't forget OpenSUSE, which has been making btrfs snapshots before and after every upgrade for years(?) now. OpenSUSE doesn't seem to ever get the recognition it deserves.