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No it’s not just a phase. Mint really is very good which is why it’s very popular and widely regarded as the overall best distro whether beginner or advanced user.

Mint widely regarded as the best distro for advanced users? I must have missed it.

Not trying to shit on it or anything, but I've never heard the sentiment.

One issue with rollbacks Arch has is that there's basically only up to three valid configurations available at any time. These are your current system configuration (oldest state), upstream repositories (newest) and your local database copy (somewhere in-between, though all three states can be identical, e.g. straight after Syuing). By definition, you can't convert your system configuration back to an older one because it's the oldest one of the three already. What you can do is mix your current oldest configuration with packages from the cache, older or newer doesn't actually matter. But you're not getting back the old state really, you're creating a new one that's different from Arch's repository.

A configuration on NixOS includes all exact package versions and their exact configurations. No exceptions.

If you actually need these guarantees is a different question. I used Arch for 15 years and never had significant issues. I switched to NixOS instantly after trying it on an old notebook and immediately recognized that the whole approach suits me so much better that I switched almost all machines over by now.

Really looking forward to more bcachefs figures

I'm Windows-free for about 18 years.

It's basically the same time I started using Linux somewhat more. I didn't go Windows-free until 2007 though and then returned to Windows because I needed it for something with my Master's thesis. I kind of shudder at the thought how my old setups looked under the hood. You learn a lot in 18 years... Probably copy-pasted a lot of shell commands back then. But UT2k4 in its OpenGL glory was worth it

I'd wager it's mostly big studios leaving E3 and holding their own dedicated presentations

Really looking forward to this release! Good stuff, another (minor) possible improvement for wine would be native pipewire support. But this is definitely more interesting

Nobody mentioned Olive yet, that one is very good, though I'm always concerned about the continuation of its development.

Unfortunately this only affects boot messages, not normal system operation, for that you still get core dumps and kernel panics / oops

When not using flakes, nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade is equivalent to apt update; apt upgrade. The equivalent to dist-upgrade is nix-channel add $NEW-CHANNEL-URL nixos and then performing a regular update.

I'm a bit confused about what you actually want? Do you just want to update your packages, but stay on the same NixOS version? Just continue like before. Do you want to stay on your current version, but use some packages from the next version? That should also be possible if you somehow include that channel in your configuration.nix (though I don't know how this would work in practice).

Personally, I just run with unstable though, then the releases aren't that important.

That can be easily done with AOSP, to my knowledge there's no Google stuff in there. Which is exactly what they're using right now

I don't even understand why they make that distinction. I recently bought a used notebook with Windows 10 preinstalled that can't be upgraded. But if you just boot up the Windows 11 ISO it works fine without issues from there.

Granted I don't know why someone would want this; I was genuinely surprised when I noticed installation without a Microsoft account isn't supposed to be possible. Then you get that system that just feels sketchy to use, Teams in autostart, online services in your menus and all that. And that's just the stuff you can see. It's a total disaster in my opinion. But it went downhill ever after Windows 7 as far as I can tell.