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Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fact that I can install anything from any distro in their container setup. It makes things really easy to use with wonky stuff that, say, only works with Ubuntu.

I know you can do the same with other tools, but that’s just how their OS works in the first place.

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Any experience with gaming?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn’t try, but I did see that you can install Steam, so I’d assume everything would work fine. I saw you said you have AMD graphics, so drivers wouldn’t be a problem.

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks :)