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[–] Shadow_Glider@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] atomicStan@programming.dev 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes 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.