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Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant (europe.pub)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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10k added users since last post. Here are upstream Fedora numbers only

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Wut? You're responding to a trend graph for Fedora's immutable (Atomic) forks.

Built on Fedora's rpm-ostree system, Bazzite uses an immutable design with atomic updates and rollback functionality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazzite_(operating_system)

But yes, since the trend chart is showing immutable distros and how Bazzite is growing, I am saying the fact that Bazzite is immutable has nothing to do with it's growth.

Edit: Reading again, I realize you might not know that Fedora Atomic is the immutable base. 😉

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The Bazzite team doesn't control the wikipedia page, just the official documentation. Someone made up the term "immutable design", that's not a thing it's just a container. There's no need to confuse people just call it bazzite or a container. Atomic is a fedora brand name, it's not a thing to classify things under.

    As you can see from the comments in the thread all this does is confuse people.

    Source: I work on bazzite

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "Immutable": A term to describe Linux operating systems that do not follow the traditional filesystem layout where every single file can be removed by the user with root privileges. It is more nuanced than this in the case of Bazzite, but is still considered "immutable" from the point of view of the extended Linux community. The Bazzite team would not describe Bazzite as an "immutable" operating system.

    https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/terms/

    I'm a big fan of Bazzite, but as stated in the docs, "immutable" is a term the community uses to describe it.

    Education is the key to reducing confusion, not pretending a system architecture doesn't exist or matter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    After reading this I’m confused about what immutable means

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Pretend your running a live OS off a read-only USB, yet any changes (app installs, config changes, etc) you make are saved to the HD. A new version of the OS comes out, so you write a new ISO to your USB, and upon booting it, all you changes are applied on top.

    This is a simplistic view of immutable distros, but thwy wrk more like snapshots. It allows for rollback. So you install v1, then v2 is a newer snapshot of the base OS, v3 is another, always building.

    The catch is they often require apps to run under things like flatpak so you don't have to alter the OS packages. Personally, I'm not a fan for a daily driver, but it's great for distros like Bazzite.

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