What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I’ll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

  • TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    I have been trying to understand this for a minute and I can’t seem to understand why you would use it on a personal workstation.

    Like it makes sense for servers, and for deploying accross multiple systems in a corporate or public setting, but beyond that it seems like it is just adding unnecessary steps if you try to use it on your personal rig.

    Maybe I’ll need to just give in and try it for a week to a month to see the appeal

    • sibloure@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      It’s much harder to break if you’re prone to tinker. And there’s no configuration drift that naturally accumulates over time as you tweak a system, so it always runs like a fresh new installation.

      I have learned much more on immutable OS because I’m no longer afraid to tinker around and try new things. I play in distrobox and can completely nuke the container without affecting my whole system.

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    If you want to tinker with the system, if you want to install multiple DEs, if you want to test and change things on your own, you may not like the rigidity of atomic systems.

    If you don’t want to tinker with your system and you always want to have a working system, go for it.

    In the future it will become easier to tinker with the system (I hope that it doesn’t take the path of android). I hope that more happens within containers and that it mature even more. Maybe the de within a distrobox? That would be awesome but I don’t no the downside of it.

    Right now you are still an early adopter. It sounds like the future and for many it will be, but who know what’s next. Especially companies have an interest in fedora’s atomic distros with ostree.