[ajosh]

My experience has been that MAIB version updates are usually very smooth. Regular OS update (apt update/apt install) are smooth. The big problem is that the recommended path is to install on a fresh system when moving between OS versions. In the most recent release that required that, I actually did an in-place upgrade of the OS by running do-release-upgrade twice and leaving the config files as-is. I followed some steps that were posted on the forum. I ran into one or two minor issues but they were the sorts of things I'd expect to see running an "unsupported" upgrade. Other than the OS updates which just take time to download and install, the total work doing it this unofficial way was maybe a couple of hours. That's necessary every 2-3 years, I think?

I do have a few things that I've customized. Updates to MIAB will overwrite them if they're involved in the services it provides. Recently NextCloud updates have been better about removing all of your plugins. The only problem I ever had with it during an update was when the SQLite DB got corrupt. That basically made it so you had to reset NextCloud.

[abdullahkhalids]

It's not the hours of work that is problematic (though that should go away too). It is the stress of somehow losing my mail. Of course I have backups, but still I would rather not deal with the hassle of recovering from them.

I really wish, we were in a place where such software were designed for NixOS.

[HumanOstrich]

Saying something should just be redesigned for Nix is like saying just rewrite it in Rust. Terrible idea.