I’ve been a Linux user for about a decade and a half, most of that time I’ve been using OpenSUSE, but recently I’ve been hopping again.

For my main machine, I needed a distro that natively runs and installs .deb packages at root for the program used for my language lessons (fcitx5 nor ibus played well with sandboxes) so I’ve landed on Kubuntu for that machine.

But I’m really intrigued by the setup of VanillaOS, apx seems like such a perfect solution in many ways to my needs, but I don’t have as much experience with immutable distros.

Lastly I’m fascinated with NixOS, and really want to get into it, but life is just so busy that I don’t have the energy to devote to learning it.

So, what about you folks?

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I really enjoy immutable distros - rn I’m running Fedora Atomic and it’s good. Last time it crashed to console on reboot I was able to just roll it back to the latest update, the majority of the software I need is either in the Flatpak repo or on Homebrew. One issue is that if you’re using something that’s expecting a native dependency that doesn’t exist ( for example browser automation software will default to native installs of Chrome/Firefox/Whatever rather than the existing flatpak install), you’ll have to work your way around that.