For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

  • @Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13•2 years ago

    I love Universal Blue.

    It’s OCI cloud image based Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite/Serica with extra steps/batteries included.

    “The reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop.”

    But also probably an easier way for Nvidia Fedora users to game on Linux:

    Easily roll back deployments or 📌 one and rebase to something else easy peasy. (So many different choices) Test betas with no fear!

    I’ve actually been gaming on Bazzite for two weeks now:

    Jorge’s Blog:

    Media:

    If you wanna simply make your own image to share with friends/family:

    Universal Blue isn’t a distro. It’s more of a reimplementation/enhancement of Immutable OCI Cloud Based Images of Fedora.

    • @nottheengineer@feddit.de
      8•2 years ago

      People literally made a distro spin that’s dedicated to rolling back nvidia drivers.

      Classic nvidia moment right there.

      But Universal Blue does look very interesting, I need to try and use it with distrobox and see if I can hit any walls that aren’t there with a classic setup.

      • j0rge
        2•2 years ago

        Nvidia is just a specific pain point, it’s nice to be able to roll back to a specific version of any given deployment.

        It’s just more obvious for out-of-tree drivers since that’s usually a worse user experience.

    • Chewy
      3•2 years ago

      uBlue is great. After using Fedora Silverblue for more than a year I used it to have the same OS on my laptop and desktop. It’s works great and is quite simple if your already familiar with building containers. But the constant reboots and rebuilding an image taking minutes made me switch to NixOS.

      The advantage of uBlue over NixOS is imo that the former is configured like any other Linux by placing files in the traditional file system hierarchy (e.g. binaries in /usr/local/bin). NixOS throws most of that over board and makes use of it’s own configuration language and package manager. Getting started with uBlue is definitely easier, while NixOS is a time-consuming rabbit hole (not that uBlue isn’t…). For a tiling wm setup I definitely think NixOS is the better choice, since changing core system components is quicker.