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  • Silently working around a problem is how you end up with a system no longer set up the way you think it is.

    It’'s not working around the issue, it’s just refusing to update. You shouldn’t need to manually rollback a system that doesn’t boot. And you shouldn’t need to manually troubleshoot or fix it either. Just report the failing update and wait for it to be fixed.

    Jup, I think that explains my point perfectly, thank you!

    The point of most atomic distros is that it’s set up for you. If you want to manually investigate around and work around the issue yourself, then an atomic distro is probably not for you.

    I’d add to this that my distro will just spare you the time to unfuck your system. What you do about the fact that the update failed is still up to you to figure out, but at least you start the figuring out process in your damn DE. That in no way is “silently changing how your system works”, that’s literally just saving you time by doing something that you would have to manually do yourself if it was even a possibility.