• Rhabuko@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What are ya’ll’s thoughts on immutable OS’s?

    As a causal user, they sound awesome. I want a stable system and, if possible, never touch the Terminal to fix some stuff + I’m okay with Flatpaks, since I have more than enough disk space for them. The only slight annoyance would be theming in my case, but that’s a minor problem that is probably easy to fix.

    I’m actually very interested in Vanilla OS, since it is a community-driven Distro. I will probably switch fully when they bring out the KDE version.

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      I don’t know too much about Vanilla OS, is it not possible to install your own DE or WM?

      I’m less interested in Vanilla OS since it’s based on Ubuntu and I’d rather not support / rely upon anything Canonical if I can help it.

      Silverblue (+ spins) seems like the best option since it is the most mature, most popular, and is a community run distro. Of course Redhat pours a lot of resources into the Fedora project since it’s upstream RHEL, and so does SUSE for MicroOS. But honestly if Redhat/SUSE were to disappear tomorrow, I think Fedora and OpenSUSE would be fine, whereas I can’t say the same for Canonical+Ubuntu (and thus their descendants).

      edit: After looking more into Vanilla OS, it looks very nice! Funnily apx addresses excatly the issues with distrobox pointed out in this thread by @mogoh@lemmy.ml. They also plan on moving from being Ubuntu based to Debian Sid based, which would be even better than Fedora as Debian is a true, 100% community backed and time tested distro (though still of course much corporate support).