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[–] Shadow_Glider@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NixOS doesn't require a reboot for installing packages to take effect

[–] atomicStan@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, NixOS is excellent. But, for nix (or close enough) to be the future, an upgrade path should exist for other distros. But, for some reason, I don't really see any such efforts. Like, where are the nix-variants of other distros?

FWIW, Bootcrew has created bootc-variants of many other distros. And, even before, both Endless OS and GNOME OS offered examples of non-Fedora distros with ostree.

EDIT: TIL