With that, I’m starting a contest (the prize is the honor of being texted by me that you won):

Guess how much it will take me to break the system beyond repair. I will deliberately do stupid things such as using random niche bootloaders, bcachefs and whatever else is suggested in comments.

If I can’t break the system in like 2 weeks, I’m installing that NixOS config regardless of this challenge.

Yep, that’s it. Thanks for participation and don’t break your system.

Edit: I’m not going with bcachefs. Thanks Linus

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 days ago

    Fedora will break when the kernel update to a version incompatible with the current Nvidia drivers. Happened twice to me. Happened to a friend. It’s not if fedora will break, but when.

    Anyways. Good luck on your future nix journey. I recommend switching to a flake config asap and putting it in a git repo for easy rollback. Don’t use the dendritic pattern as a beginner. This will only make things harder (ask how I know…)

    • HumbleBragger@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      That’s the reason I came back to Debian after 3 years of fedora. Every major kernel update (sometime even a minor one) broke my shitty nvidia card driver.

      • RustyNova@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        TBF it’s mostly a fedora issue to not wait for the Nvidia drivers to be compatible to release the kernel.

        Never had a problem on nixos despite being rolling release and using the same proprietary drivers