It's missing the fact that the nix store can be huge, even if garbage collected regularly. This prevents me from using nix on my Ubuntu laptop with limited HDD space.
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For rollbacks, I've been using Timeshift in Mint, and it has worked brilliantly.
I wonder why nobody has created a simple gui for Nixconfig.
Someone has done just that: https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor It is part of https://snowflakeos.org/, though I don't know about its developments atm.
It's less simple than text because it actually takes more space to view the same amount of configs.
Something like this is really hard to make a gui for. I suppose a GUI would only be useful for discovering config values?
Either way, a gui would likely look like YAST on OpenSuse.