u/Beautiful-Alarm8222

I love NixOS. Biggest gripe / speed bump is managing updates. I commonly find myself running into “oh, I need to update program X, let me do nix flake update and then NixOS-rebuild switch.” However, lots of the time this step has broken packages, takes a really long time, and it makes me reluctant to even use those apps that need to be updated.

How do people handle this pain point? Do people allow rebuild to continue with partial failures? Any auto-update / cachix things I should know about?

I currently have 1 flake.nix with all my sources and everything is nix modules across multiple hosts.