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@codemonkeymike If I understand, you are taking on the job of being NixOS admin for these people (that's the purpose of pulling the git repo?). That is a lot of trust to put in you! Possibly okay for family, but I would never ever recommend or expect that kind of trust from a friend, much less a stranger. 6 comments
 @danielittlewood I've been giving normies Linux mint for years. It's as easy as it gets and people still don't do updates. With this, they're automatic and in the background. You don't even have to decide to do them or worry about potential conflict messages etc. It's not for you and me. It's for your parents ya know @codemonkeymike @danielittlewood I'm an actual parent and am using Cinnamon (albeit I have a tech background). There are still some problems I encounter on an occasional basis, but then again, I am not a typical user of my age. Most older users use their system for a set number of tasks and stick to those; they don't vary things that much from week to week.
@codemonkeymike @danielittlewood but will that actually upgrade you versions? Like from debian 12 to 13? I can't imagine that.. but maybe! Either way, Nix is also providing some immutability too so people like my dad CAN'T break it even if they wanted too. And the software store is limited to just whats on flathub.. which is safer for normies @danielittlewood sure. I'm acting as the repo of sorts I guess. We all put our trusts in things like that. However, this is dead simple to see what's going on. However, you could simply comment out the git pull line and everything will work, but your channel won't change. So no upgrades. Unless you switch to unstable channel |
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@codemonkeymike
If not, and it's just auto-updating Nix but with Flatpak, then I wonder how this compares to e.g. stock Debian with unattended upgrades. In Debian you have distro upgrades, but in Nix you still have channel upgrades - I don't know whether there is a way to automate that in either system.
I guess you chose Nix because of the excitement of atomic upgrades. But I wonder if the average person benefits from this? I have never had to fiddle with a Debian or Ubuntu machine, personally.
@codemonkeymike
If not, and it's just auto-updating Nix but with Flatpak, then I wonder how this compares to e.g. stock Debian with unattended upgrades. In Debian you have distro upgrades, but in Nix you still have channel upgrades - I don't know whether there is a way to automate that in either system.