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> It's cheaper to make backups and learn to restore from them, because your software is going to crash anyway, and your disk will die and take your most recent
by RetroTechie 2y ago
> It's cheaper to make backups and learn to restore from them, because your software is going to crash anyway, and your disk will die and take your most recent copy with it.
Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme?
A tiny, immutable OS core? Low-level libs/drivers cached from a network, 'installed' on-the-fly / loaded as needed upon reboot? Apps loaded & run from their distribution archives, without intermediate install step?
Sounds not too different from how computing was done in early days (apart from 'cache drivers from a network').
Makes one think what this "install software" nonsense is about, really.
- Tijdreiziger 2y agoThat’s basically containerization, right?
- rlupi 2y ago> Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? ChromeOS
- exe34 2y agoChromeOS and SaaS
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? You might get some shade of nixos: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ (Frankly, default nixos already does a bit of the whole "apps aren't installed per se" thing - `nix shell nixpkgs#foo` gives you a shell with foo "installed" but only until you exit the shell and run garbage collection.)