I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    1·
    6 months ago

    You also didnt answer to the security issue of removing an entire sandboxing layer, or to the point about not being able to upgrade Distroboxes.

    Do you solve the second problem by building a latest distrobox container following the uBlue releases?

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        1·
        6 months ago

        So what happens to the apps installed?

        And what about running different distros in the same homedir, and dotfile clashes?

        • j0rge@lemmy.ml
          2·
          6 months ago

          Use the distrobox assemble command, that’ll let you have an ini file with all the stuff you want and then when the assemble command runs it’ll remake the entire thing. Then just toss the assemble in cron and you’ll always have a fresh container with your exact setup.