Comment by anon291
6 days ago
I use NixOS and haven't restarted my machines in years. Always on. There are power outages once in a while but everything is set to restart when power is available so it comes back up.
6 days ago
I use NixOS and haven't restarted my machines in years. Always on. There are power outages once in a while but everything is set to restart when power is available so it comes back up.
IMO the power of NixOS is at the other extreme. Set it up with Impermanence (https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Impermanence) and reboot often.
Also worth flagging if you are only ever switching in new configs Kernel patches, firmware, or updates to systemd won’t apply until next boot.
I usually kexec into new kernels, but rarely, I do reboot for firmware updates.
My system is rebooted sometimes due to power, and while it comes back just fine... there's no need to reboot a computer that works.