[EdLUG] Upgrade error

[Mark Turner]

Andrew, I suggest looking at nix and nixos and keep all your files and
important stuff on USB.

when you get used to it its really handy but may take you a while to get
your head round.

I am looking at how flakes work - such an incredible useful tool, and
putting the flake/nix thing into context by comparing with LFS (work in
progress) it may take me some time as even with my 45 years computing
experience, it still needs baby steps to use it properly and most of my
time I have to do other manual stuff like dealing with customers family etc.

The best thing is its ability to load configuration from web/cloud, process
scripts from external sources including git or ftp and provide consistent
environments for development.

I first tried nixos when it was USB only and wrote back to the boot USB,
have recently revisited and have it in my plan for kiosk computing. Its
definitely worth looking into and learning for the future (though neither
of us has many more working years left ..).

Good Luck
Mark

On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 18:25, Dick Bain <dick.bain at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 17:32, Andrew Ramage <andrew.ramage.1963 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> That's the problem ... I get no text describing the problem.  For many
>> months I have had problems updating my system.
>>
>> I would definitely change the Distro, I have been using Mint for at least
> the last five years and have always been happy with updates but when I
> upgrade I download the new ISO and do a re-install (my home directory is a
> different partition, preserving all my data/settings)
> I should add that I have only ever had relatively old second hand
> hardware, currently an AMD dual core E1-2100 with  3719600 kB RAM and 500Gb
> hdd
> Dick
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