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Thoughts on atomic distros? (lemmy.today)

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

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So, I recently got interested with the idea of an atomic distro, particularly the derivatives of Fedora Kinoite (currently testing Aurora).

What's your experience with them? What are the unexpected troubles and did you manage to resolve them? Do you feel it's worth it to learn the nuances of their use?

Also, on a personal testing note, did you manage to properly run AppImages and what did you do to make it happen? I couldn't properly run them either natively or via Fedora toolbox on Aurora. (Also, I borked Aurora within 4 hours of trying to install Outline VPN that consistently had issues with tunneling).

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

I'm testing OpenSUSE Kalpa on an old machine, and I guess it's alright if you do standard normie things. I found there are tools I want that aren't available. There are usually a way around that, but it takes some faffing around. But I tend to want to customize and control my system in a way that is ideologically almost antithetical to immutable distros, so, meh. But YMMV.