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Any immutable distros like Chrome OS? (Desktop part of the project) (dahliaos.io)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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There is Dahlia OS which looks fairly promising but development takes time and it is only a small amount of people.

I like the idea of the OS being more embedded focused like Android and Chrome OS but I don't want Chrome or Google.

Is there anything else I should look at?

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[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

I've been very happy with both Silverblue and Kinoite. I've installed it to all of my workstations now and can't imagine ever going back to a traditional distro.

Your comments suggest that you're already aware of distros like Silverblue so, if I may ask, how are these different than what you're looking for? Silverblue comes with several flatpaks installed, but you can easily remove these and you'll be left with a pretty barebones ostree image.