Thoughts on atomic distros? (lemmy.today)

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So, I recently got interested with the idea of an atomic distro, particularly the derivatives of Fedora Kinoite (currently testing Aurora).

What's your experience with them? What are the unexpected troubles and did you manage to resolve them? Do you feel it's worth it to learn the nuances of their use?

Also, on a personal testing note, did you manage to properly run AppImages and what did you do to make it happen? I couldn't properly run them either natively or via Fedora toolbox on Aurora. (Also, I borked Aurora within 4 hours of trying to install Outline VPN that consistently had issues with tunneling).

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

I tried Fedora Silverblue.
Didn't see the point. Anything that needs access to system files can't be installed as a FlatPak or in a container.
When you need to alter the install image just to get htop or Gnome Tweaks, it defeats the purpose of running an atomic distro.

And I didn't see any benefit. It was buggier than all other distros I tried except Ubuntu. So the selling point of "the devs test on the exact same system you run" doesn't seem to have any effect. And I wasn't in a situation where I would have needed to roll back to a previous state in years. Linux doesn't really bork your install with an update anymore.