• Johanno@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Use glorious nixos. Never fear anything breaking. And even if you manage to do so just roll back in the boot menu or terminal.

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      7 months ago

      Ahh until something hangs when updating grub. Had it happen twice over the last couple of months. No real biggie as it’s not the hardest thing to recover from / easy enough to pull my config and rebuild.

      Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s Nixos or Grub.

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        7 months ago

        Why would you update grub?

        Also I am not sure if I am even using grub. Does systemd have a bootloader?

        Normal people don’t change their bootloader that often.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, systemd-init. Pretty sure the GUI installer uses systemd-init – never broke once for me.

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            7 months ago

            I’ll probs have to migrate back over, grub will be written to on every rebuild for what I’m assuming is adding entries. Not sure of the inner workings all I know is it’s caused me headaches a couple of times now.

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        7 months ago

        That’s why I use Gentoo. If something breaks I just boot system from external drive and solve the issue. Or even if bootloader breaks I can use kernel from external drive, but boot into main system.