"As Linux users, we often install Linux for friends and family, but many struggle with updates, packaging quirks, and system maintenance—leaving you to fix issues and them frustrated.
Instead of simply suggesting they get a Chromebook, what if we could create a similar experience with NixOS? My Nixbook project delivers automatic updates, easy Flatpak app installs, and sane defaults for everyday users.
In this talk, I’ll share how I built it and made it work flawlessly."
@codemonkeymike
I followed along a bit, so i have one question: How do you deal with breaking changes to the config? Like renames and such, when your system will not update anymore by itself?
edit: typo corrected
@chfkch part of the update is updating it's own config from the git repo. This is how the channel is changed for upgrades, and I'm also just about to push live an update because some gnome packages changed names.
I have a testing branch of this that always gets tested here on vms and hardware before it's mainlined.
@codemonkeymike
Ah cool, cool.
I only looked at the initial push from your repo.