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by SAI_Peregrinus 198 days ago
NixOS is mostly a rolling-release distro, like Arch, but it rolls a bit more slowly. You can opt into full rolling release with the "unstable" branch, which is very common. There's not a lot of benefit to "stable" IMO.
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Er, no it isn't? Yes, unstable is rolling, but otherwise it has releases, like 25.11, which contain breaking changes. It cuts new releases quite quickly and drops old ones fast, but that doesn't make it a rolling distro.