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#NixOS 25.05 system update (approx. for 4 weeks) took 1h7min on my lenovo #x260 i5 (16GB RAM).
I have no idea why the performance is so poor on that machine in contrast to T490 with same NixOS configuration.
I'll see after I switched back to

"To start with #Nix was one of my worst IT ideas so far."
Read about the reasons why #NixOS did not work out for me on:
Good bye NixOS, Hello #Debian (Again)!

what in the actual fuck is going on with sdcc

I don't understand why so few people use openSUSE compared to Fedora, Debian, Ububububu, and the meme distros (btw). It's basically perfect. It has every package you could hope for, even Nvidia and Steam, right there in the repo. Tested packages with snapshots for rollback. Doesn't force Wayland (yet?). The sensible defaults on weird hardware work great. Why waste time with anything else? I'm old and grumpy now, I just want a *nix computer, not a hobby.

Updating a ten year old Linux install to the latest Debian stable on my wife's laptop. My brother in law did the old install, all on one giant partition. Which means I'm still backing up all of her files in preparation for the install. I don't understand why anyone would do it this way.

Okay, I give up. After several weeks with Linux Mint, I made the switch to Debian Stable today.
Why now in the end?
Although I managed to overcome all the initial difficulties of switching to Mint, I just have my problems with this distribution... not that it's bad, not at all, but it just doesn't suit me.
In the end, Mint is a great distribution for newcomers and those switching from Windows. But I've been working with computers for over 42 years, learned SSP …