[kwlug-disc] From Slackware to which distro?

[Paul Nijjar]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 04:46:22AM -0400, Doug Moen wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Raul Suarez via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> I want to point out that I have some very specific requirements that other people may not share. The system level features I want include:
>  * A high level UI for snapshot and restore of the root partition, so I can recover from disaster after a system update or package install goes badly. Like my problematic install of MATE on Fedora. This is built in to Mint and OpenSUSE, but not Fedora or Manjaro.

>  * ZFS support (for an external array, not ZFS on root). Mint has this in the default install. OpenSUSE has a package that is not in the default repos, but the OpenZFS project endorses the package, and people on the internet report using it without issue. Fedora has a package that the OpenZFS project says "should not be used under any circumstance". Note that ZFS is for my server machine, not my laptop, and I won't use a rolling release distro on my server for stability/reliability reasons. I could use Mint or OpenSUSE Leap.

Have you considered NixOS? My impression is that it is bad for the "It
Just Works (tm)" experience, but its strength is being able to recover
from failed upgrades cleanly. Somebody I know swears by it, and has
switched his production systems away from Debian and to NixOS
precisely because he needs to upgrade and rollback without hassle.

- Paul

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