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Immutable distros recommindation? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I'm choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

From OpenSUSE there's also leap micro. Never used it, but maybe worth looking at.

I heard of it, but it seems more server/development focused, rather than desktop.

For instance, I could never get used to dnf, but it's largely irrelevant on an atomic distro anyways.

100% agree, dnf is a bummer. Maybe I'll give Kinoite a shot, as it has many differences with "vanilla" Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What started as openSUSE Micro Desktop is now openSUSE Aeon. It's still RC2, and RC3 will probably be easier to do a clean install since it will add full disk encryption, but if you want to check it out now it's reliable and works well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ahhh gotcha. The websites don't give a good indication of that, unfortunately. Trying to find the differences between OpenSUSE flavors was surprisingly hard. Thanks for the info!

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

In recent turn of events, openSUSE Aeon will probably just be Aeon, and the name openSUSE will disappear everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Honestly I tried Silverblue, and had a much better time after I rebased to Bluefin. I would recommend going for Aurora over Kinoite. Of course, you can always rebase.