openSUSE Aeon

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The 12 most detailed of 13 comments. Each links to the original.

1. I can have it auto-update fearlessly, knowing that the absolute worst case scenario is having to talk someone through booting into a known-good snapshot

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “OpenSUSE Kalpa”

2. I fell in love with Immutable linux with aeon, but I had so many weird issues with gnome

   Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “KDE at 30”

3. an immutable system with Btrfs snapshots. Everything is installed from Flathub.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it”

4. rolling on OpenSUSE Aeon for the immutability

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution”

5. Aeon continues to raise its bar (or maintain it continuously, which I suppose is even more difficult)

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Why a world without friction is a world without progress”

6. in practice I run into all sorts of edge cases where I'm fighting the system to do what I want to do

   Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “OpenSUSE Kalpa”

7. here are some of my favorite publication that sometimes cover these topics

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)”

8. in aggregate they seem so whimsical with fantastical titles

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Art Invented Humanity”

9. Overall the experience has been good!

   Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “OpenSUSE Kalpa”

10. AeonOS also refused to support KDE[1], so Kalpa was created.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “OpenSUSE Kalpa”

11. I tried for a year, but one day I had enough

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “The State of Immutable Linux”

12. none of my visualizer plugins work any more

    Criticizes · Nov 2025