They have virtually no moderators (they all quit because they were burnt out and manipulated), filled with racist 
, and are associated deeply with anti-migrant violence and warmongering (Anduril) who hire people straight out of NixOS to build weapons to fund imperialism everywhere.
Go use Guix instead (they don’t rely on free GitHub credits or limitless AWS S3 buckets) and are objectively superior on a technical standpoint (no “experimental features” that everyone considers stable) and don’t give any shit about nonfree software unless you provide it, or only contribute to nixpkgs (collective infra) and outside projects like Lix/Snix.
Avoid the NixOS community at all costs if you value your emotional labor. Even the chuds have done this with things like Determinate Systems Nix (“Nix without the drama”) and making their own corpo shill platform called “flakehub”
Source: A former NixOS community member (me)
There is no liberalism anymore, only fascist cultural hegemony that will take over every space it can.
People in this thread posting about cornflakes and shit, mf just sudo apt update and go outside
Past me would feel offended by this comment but honestly…
Hats off to the debian folks for not being hitler-brained
sudo apt upgrade
cutely deletes grub
We don’t upgrade, that’s unstable.
Are there any stable ways when it comes time for that?
Backups. Use snapshotting software or filesystems that support snapshots like btrfs.
Everyone should have backups anyway.
Or use fedora atomic or uhh
NixOS/GuixSo, not really other than clean installing?
Highly recommend Fedora Atomic if you’re tired of updates that can’t succeed or unbootable systems that are hard to rescue.
Otherwise, you can do mitigations by being very cognizant of what you install onto your system and also using containerized packaging formats like flatpak and homebrew or distrobox.
Usually updates should never break if the base distribution is left unchanged and you only installed packages via methods listed before, but you should still keep backups.