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minus-squareKlaymore@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoYou mean like nixos-unstable, the rolling release channel of NixOS?
minus-squarenetwren@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWell yeah obviously like NixOS. My reason for not using it is that they use a non standard Linux filesystem and it renders a # of packages I want to install incompatible.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWhich packages? Check nixpkgs unstable, they might have been added in the last few months before stable release Try steam-run, it will run binaries like you’re in a normal distro I ended up packaging the thing myself, actually. The best part is my pull request was approved and I was able to contribute my work
minus-squarerussjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIn that case, couldn’t you just use something like btrfs snapshots + Timeshift to pull this off?
minus-squarenetwren@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoYeah you could put some together I think, possibly with OverlayFS as well. I feel like the value those distros add is not just the rolling mechanism but the package manager being tied into it. So you just use the package manager like any other and it works.
You mean like nixos-unstable, the rolling release channel of NixOS?
Well yeah obviously like NixOS. My reason for not using it is that they use a non standard Linux filesystem and it renders a # of packages I want to install incompatible.
Which packages?
I ended up packaging the thing myself, actually. The best part is my pull request was approved and I was able to contribute my work
In that case, couldn’t you just use something like btrfs snapshots + Timeshift to pull this off?
Yeah you could put some together I think, possibly with OverlayFS as well.
I feel like the value those distros add is not just the rolling mechanism but the package manager being tied into it.
So you just use the package manager like any other and it works.