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Immutable Operating Systems: Yay or Nay? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen a lot of talks on the benefits of immutable distros (specifically Fedora Silverblue) but it always seemed to me as more of a hassle. Has anyone here been daily driving an immutable distro? Would you say it's worth the effort of getting into?

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

I'm actually dual-booting ublue (rebased to it from silverblue) and windows right now. When setting it up I didn't even know about any potential troubles lol. On my laptop they live on two separate drives with two separate EFI partitions, grub detected the windows bootloader and it's been working perfectly (no broken bootloaders, no windows getting before grub in boot order) for about a year now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting! I'll have to take another look at it then. Earlier I had tried installing regular Arch (just for something quickly to install) into a VM, leaving the virtual disk some empty space (20GBs) and then tried to tell uBlue to install in that empty space (there was an option labeled "Create the new partitions for me" or something along those lines), and while it accepted that as a valid partition scheme when I actually tried to proceed with installation it failed right away giving me the error message at the bottom of this page.

Perhaps then the key might be trying out regular Silverblue, and then rebasing that to uBlue instead of a clean install!