Unless they didn’t “systemctl enable simulation.service”

I have yet to see anyone brave enough, to mount /home to NTFS

A kernel update didn’t generate the initramfs

This sounds like a bug on Nix configuration, or the kernel build process.

If NixOS had caught the error, you wouldn’t have gotten a faulty generation at all. This is different from pacman/apt/dnf, which will happily continue the upgrade, resulting in a broken system with no easy way to fix it.

When I use Debian/Ubuntu, I prefer installing missing/outdated software from Nix package manager or Flatpaks.

This way, I can keep a stable core, while being able to enjoy all the latest versions of the apps that I need.

nix flake update
nixos-rebuild --switch --flake .

# Just to keep an update history
git add flake.lock
git commit -m "update"

This may seem like too much work, but it guarantees an all-or-nothing procedure. If some package is broken, the entire upgrade process is canceled, and the system remains in the state that it was.

I have had a couple of partial upgrade cases on Arch. It was not fun live booting to repair it, every time this happened.

Me on Dirt Rally, before hitting a tree because I ignored the “don’t cut”

Are you at your place?

Don’t worry much about my cat. I will totally respect any decision.

I am so sorry to hear that. I run the Margit profile in your instance, but I wasn’t aware of your plans to shut it down.