never had that issue before, as long as they have the same version and config
Then you are very lucky. “It worked on my machine” is a meme for a reason.
wasn’t that possible before with snapshotting (btrfs/lvm)?
I haven’t used snapshotting with those before. I guess the difference is that with nix it is done by the package manager by default, with btrfs/lvm you would have to set that up independently (please correct of this is not the case).
It’s useful for quite a few things in practise:
This video shows off some of the cool things you can do with nix: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Le0IbPRzOE&feature=share9
You update a programming by specifying the latest version of a program in config and rebuilding.
You update the OS by pointing to the channel you want to use and rebuilding.
You can time travel back to a previous state if anything goes wrong.
I expect so, some people.do use nix for gaming.
never had that issue before, as long as they have the same version and config
I have those on Gentoo sometimes, possibly because I overloaded USE too much, but that’s not something I have to deal with on Debian/Mint.
wasn’t that possible before with snapshotting (btrfs/lvm)?
If it allowed me to avoid systemd, I would be willing to give it a go. Perhaps I will try it in a VM, but it’s not going on any baremetal for now.
Then you are very lucky. “It worked on my machine” is a meme for a reason.
I haven’t used snapshotting with those before. I guess the difference is that with nix it is done by the package manager by default, with btrfs/lvm you would have to set that up independently (please correct of this is not the case).