Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.
  • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I just want to drop this here

    https://projectbluefin.io/

    Jorge Castro has been the head of this project and I am excited by his vision. Bluefin aims to be the immutable desktop distro with the most sane defaults that also supports Nvidia.

    Give it a whirl!

      • Happybara@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        It’s a mascot for brand recognition purposes, just like Tux the penguin. I don’t quite understand what the problem is. I feel like if I were to call anything about it weird, it would be the use of a derpy, chonky dinosaur rather than the gender of said derpasaurus.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      If you are a modder that wants to do stuff like replace the kernel, add in rust coreutils etc, then I think NixOS is indeed better. Have not used it but really want to try.

      Image based Distros are just perfect for people that want to have perfectly reproducible bugs, or in general not many.

      It is a good community concept, but tbh a preset of shared Nix config files could do the same thing too, with ease. Just dont deviate from those configs and you will have multiple people with the same systems.

      • brandhout@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        Exactly. The concept is great, but my Guix system (Nix fork from GNU) is already reproducible and capable of rollbacks and transactional upgrades (and declarative system configuration !)

        The learning curve is quite steep tho (the Nix leaning curve is even higher, at least it used to be IMO). If the sway spin of Atomic Fedora was available earlier I probably wouldn’t have switched tbh. Both solutions are great.

        Overall I’m quite happy with my Guix configuration. I’ve got roughly the same configuration on all my systems with ease, all config files (also sway for example) in the same language: Guile Scheme (LISP dialect), and the whole thing is in git. I don’t imagine going back to a regular distribution anytime soon.