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For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I love Universal Blue.

It's OCI cloud image based Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite/Serica with extra steps/batteries included.

"The reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop."

But also probably an easier way for Nvidia Fedora users to game on Linux:

Easily roll back deployments or 📌 one and rebase to something else easy peasy. (So many different choices) Test betas with no fear!

I've actually been gaming on Bazzite for two weeks now:

Jorge's Blog:

Media:

If you wanna simply make your own image to share with friends/family:

Universal Blue isn't a distro. It's more of a reimplementation/enhancement of ~~Immutable~~ OCI Cloud Based Images of Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

People literally made a distro spin that's dedicated to rolling back nvidia drivers.

Classic nvidia moment right there.

But Universal Blue does look very interesting, I need to try and use it with distrobox and see if I can hit any walls that aren't there with a classic setup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nvidia is just a specific pain point, it's nice to be able to roll back to a specific version of any given deployment.

It's just more obvious for out-of-tree drivers since that's usually a worse user experience.

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