> EDIT: As usual in some Linux forums, I got a bunch of marketing replies about all the cool ideas NixOS is supposed to bring as if I haven't read about them my

> EDIT: As usual in some Linux forums, I got a bunch of marketing replies about all the cool ideas NixOS is supposed to bring as if I haven't read about them myself in LWN and other Linux sources I routinely check on. That's because "I think X sucks/is useless" isn't really a very useful comment in terms of the HN guidelines unless you're inviting discussion about the merits and drawbacks of the solution. --- The other day, I upgraded my Ubuntu and it broke my display manager for some reason. I spent several hours debugging it. Given that investing in a niche technology where you won't get as much support as for e.g. Ubuntu (or even mac/win) has its own set of drawbacks, that isn't enough to make me switch to NixOS (problems like this really only ever happen every couple of years), but I do think that this isn't something that should normally happen. With NixOS, it would have been easy to rollback.