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Interested in Linux, FOSS, data storage systems, unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.

I help maintain Nixpkgs.

github.com/Atemu
reddit.com/u/Atemu12 (Probably won’t be active much anymore.)

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Atemu,
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As in, build a NixOS VM that’s otherwise the exact same as your current system but with a different DE enabled. nixos-rebuild build-vm

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Guix might also be able to do this but I don’t think the others can.

This relies on NixOS’ declarative configuration which Silverbluae and the like do not have; they are configured imperatively.

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Well, you can roll back with a switch too; no reboot required.

The VM protects you from accidental state modification however (i.e. programs enabled by some DE by default writing their config files everwhere) and its ephemeral nature makes a few things easier.

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Post the journal after wakeup, not before.

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