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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If I were not so much into fedora's rpm-ostree

Dude, right? I've thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can't bring myself to give up ostree.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Silverblue manages to be exciting yet boring.

As in, it is great for everyday work yet still uses newfangled tech under the hood.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think I'm lucky in that I only had about 1.5-2 years of experience with an Arch-based distro (EndeavourOS) before switching to Bazzite, so I didn't have to unlearn years (if not decades) of traditional Linux work flows before trying to grasp the new tech.

And I love it. Anything that I've wanted to tinker with so far has been tinkerable, it's often just a different process than on a non-atomic or immutable distro.

And aside from that, it's insanely stable. It's almost impossible to break it by accident, and if you do, it has instant, failsafe rollbacks.

Anyway, I know I don't have to sell you on it lol.

The other day I was looking into "Blue Build" which allows to build your own custom Universal Blue spins, as I was wondering if it were possible to have Bazzite but with the Cachy kernel.

I think that's a bit over my head at the moment though haha