I’ve resisted immutable distros if only because I felt it wasn’t “how linux should be.” That’s probably not even my view because I’ve only used Linux for 3 years, so I’m not some greybeard. I think its been an attitude in online Linux circles that I read and kind of got morphed into.
Today I decided to try KDE Linux. Its still in alpha, so I’m sure I’ll find rough edges, but so far I can do everything I would do on my previous Arch system.
I know with snapper/timeshift you can have the same sort of stability as if you were running an immutable, but it always stresses me out to have a system that can crash. This is all in my head as well because I never had an update mess up my Arch install.
Besides relying on flathub a bunch, everything seems the same, except its an atomic desktop. I’m guessing I’ll struggle with some CLI programs, but I can probably use brew for those. I’m also by no means a power user. I’m a regular user. Use the web, watch videos, music, some games. So I don’t know why I thought I needed access to my core system at all times, even when I never used it.
Anyone else dipping into immutable now that they’ve been around a while? Anyone trying the KDE linux distro?
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I have been using bazzite for over a year after starting with ubuntu, and then doing a “I’m doing everything myself” arch install (I learned SO MUCH).
I love it. I got a little frustrated about some of the package installation restrictions, but then I read about distrobox, and now I have an arch box, a ubuntu box, and an ollama box running a local LLM. No more problems with finding CLI programs. I even used the arch box to run adb and fastboot to flash android stuff, it worked flawlessly.
And of course gaming and standard desktop tasks work with zero problems. Next I’m going to convert my wife’s Windows 10 PC to bazzite, and setup excel and some proprietary software for her.
I migrated from W11 to Kinoite and NY workflow is similar - flatpak, distrobox (right now I have Arch and Ubuntu boxes for different programs) and only layer essential system wide packages to the ostree.
Its very stable and I seriously enjoy using it. The *how Linux should be" piece is mostly resolves and enhanced by using distrobox.
KDE plasma is awesome and a great DE for a beginner like me.
Were the codecs annoying in Kinoite? I always got thrown off because Aurora came with “batteries included” so I figured Kinoite would be a pain, but maybe its not.
I’m on opensuse aeon and it is exactly like fedora silverblue, except that it’s rolling. I use flatpaks and install the rest via distrobox. I guess it is the same on KDE linux.
Linux is growing together.
I also wanted to try Aeon. I always had issues installing Tumbleweed though. But it looks super nice.
I want to try distrobox as well. Never used it before but I was just reading about it and thinking if I can benefit from it.
For some reason rpmostree always confused, but I’m the type of person to overthink things. Just using flatpak seemed easier, but I know you can pretty much just do that in Silverblue.