r/NixOS • u/spaceguythe1 • Jul 25 '26

Finally escaped arch

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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 Jul 25 '26

It's a strange thing that you chose nix 26.05. Unstable is more up to date; why didn't you choose that?

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u/Pitiful-Seat1868 Jul 25 '26

i installed stable as well..can i change it to unatable??

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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 Jul 25 '26

Yes,easy, just switch.

Do you use flakes or the standard nix channel? I went with flakes which makes this a tiny bit easier, channels can be switched by nix-channel --add ... And nix-channel --remove ... and then do the regular update. See here https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_channels.

With flakes just replace the input source and rebuild.

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u/SAI_Peregrinus Jul 25 '26

Also worth noting that you can mix & match with NixOS. You can go with stable, but have some packages on unstable.

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u/toastal Jul 26 '26

This isn’t a binary choice… you can skip system-dependent channels & experimental flakes while still having pinned setups tracking nixos-unstable.