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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

On fedora atomic all updates are automatic. I don't even see that they happen. They just happen in the background. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neat! I was just thinking, if it starts updating the kernel as you turn it off, you'd have to wait a minute for it to finish. M$ style. Has that never happened?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No. That's not how it works. It installs a new image alongside the current one and once you boot again it simply boots into the new image. Never ever wait for an update again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh right, atomic distros work differently, didn't think about that! That is convenient!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Very convenient because if something happens where the update breaks something, you can just boot the previous image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Does it give you a choice at startup, similar to the Grub menu, or do you have to do something to bring the option up?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That looks really handy, thanks :)

I've just downloaded Fedora Kinoite to try with my Ventoy drive (I refer the KDE layout :) )

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

For even less pain try a ublue variant (Aurora or Bazzite probably for KDE depending if you game). No faffing around with codecs and RPMFusion etc...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nope thats exactly how it works, gives you an entry in grub for the prior image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Literally is the grub menu...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If Fedora plays nice this time around, I'm seriously considering Kinninte and Atomic Budgie for 41. (But Fedora always ends badly for me)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They're also very stable do to the image-based VCS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How are you getting it to do that? Fedora wants to reboot every day for me, even for the simplest update.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Fedora atomic, e.g. silverblue, not traditional fedora. It still wants to reboot after each update but I don't see it and when I reboot, it boots into the update.