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  • If you have a working system and no wish to ever install anything new, you could run it indefinitely.

    It wouldn’t get any updates after some point and after ~10 years some websites would stop working because they would be using some new standard that is not yet implemented in the browser on your machine.

    To update to a newer version of NixOS, you might need to change config slightly, and that requires you to know where configuration is and how to read error messages.

    To install something new it is easy in 70% of cases and really really hard in the remaining 30%.


  • The answer depends on technical ability of your partner. In any case, they should always be able to login and extract all the data they need, so they can then reinstall, say plain Debian.

    This could also be done with help from a Linux versed relative/friend. So you should leave a bit of documentation behind.

    Other than that, don’t optimise for the worse case scenario. It will leave you with suboptimal system most of the time.