I've had a very good experience with NixOS, but some little things are quite difficult to manage for a more traditionally experienced Linux user. But if you can make it work for you I'm guessing it can be a perfect distro, because it has a sanity check before you switch to the new generation. In other words you *can't* break it (I did run into a snaffu once with a VM that I didn't allocate enough desk space and didn't run the garbage collector often enough).
But if you want a rollback feature there are other ways you can achieve that. Btrfs and ZFS have atomic snapshot capability built, meaning you can make a snapshot, try some stuff and fallback to the snapshot that worked. But NixOS has that all built in ✌️😎
What are you running currently btw?
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