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> For example, if you Ctrl-C while its downloading an update, you get in a weird state where nothing works. …

There is a new Nix installer from Determinate Systems, a company heavily invested in Nix, which should make installing Nix more atomic, reversible, and thus easier:

The Determinate Nix Installer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34957953

And after getting pass the installation, Nix is great for production.

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The parent talks about an interrupted update process.

Interrupted updates don't do that. In single-user mode you could maybe ctrl-c it during the final activation phase, but that's a small fraction of a second -- it's just replacing a few symlinks.

In the default multi-user mode, you can't even do that.

Yes. This is like a major benefit of nix(os), updates and everything is basically atomic. If you interrupt an update you will just have a few more downloaded folders in your nix store folder, which are trivially GC-d on the next run. This is unlike pretty much anything else.

I'll take a look, thank you.

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