Opinions on immutable distros
Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.
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I can't recommend Silverblue enough.
Thing is: on the "surface" it's not that much different than the "normal" Fedora and it's spins.
So, if you want something hugely different on the base, I'd recommend NixOS instead. Nix feels like "the new Arch" for me and is the tinkerer's dream. It appears to be very complicated too, so it should keep you "not bored" as you said.
I personally wouldn't use NixOS though, as I am just a "casual" user and don't want to over-complicate everything.
I personally am very happy with Silverblue, especially due to one reason: the ability to rebase to many many images.
As other commenters have stated, there's a project called uBlue.
It allows you to swap out the base OS (everything except "your stuff") with one command, so you can rebase to many different community spins and different desktops cleanly.
The uBlue base OS is just Vanilla SB with some QOL stuff added, like codecs and other stuff. It is really a "just works" distro, that manages itself and functions in the background without you noticing.
The other spins give you different DEs, preconfigured drivers, opinionated approaches to different DEs, a SteamOS clone, and so on...
Absolutely great, 10/10
I might try Nix first and see how it goes, if that fails I'll try Kinoite (I prefer KDE :)) thanks for the input :)
If you want to try Nix, go for it!
Feel free to update us all :).
When I said Silverblue, I actually meant "atomic Fedora variants", which include uBlue and Kinoite. You can always switch between those with one command and 2 minutes of download time :)
Well, actually this is not the first time me thinking about NixOS. But I tried reading their docs again and... I CANNOT be asked to deal with this. I'd probably be more likely to do LFS than learn NixOS lol I feel stupid now, saying I'll try NixOS. As much as I want to, the docs are horrendous
tbf the docs are in the format of manuals, i.e. only useful if you already know what you're looking for or have lots of time. If you don't, read blog posts and nixos.wiki.