Hello,

i cant decide whats better: NixOs with his Configuration File and Snapshots of the complete System or other Linux Distro with ZFS.

Can you say whats make more sence on day2day use?

  • Majiir@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can run NixOS on ZFS and get the best of both worlds.

    This is nice because /nix is reproducible, so you can make a ZFS filesystem for /nix that you don’t snapshot (or at least, don’t retain old snapshots). Since so much lives in /nix, the rest of your root filesystem is pretty light, and you can snapshot that for easy backups.

    For booting, selecting a NixOS configuration to boot is smoother than selecting a ZFS snapshot. Something like systemd-boot is preferable over something like ZFSBootMenu.

  • _nix-addict@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    NixOS does not do snapshots of the complete system.

    The “rollbacks” that are available built-in apply only to changes applied by the configuration.nix.