Fedora Silverblue

“I got bit by an issue that began ~2+ versions before the issue ended up being triggered”

“hassleless, secure, fully auto updated, easy to setup”

“If people just want idiot-proof rollback on a Linux machine, use an immutable-root distro like Silverblue instead.”

“Atomic systems with containers broke that.”

“I found its notion/implementation of immutability fairly frustrating”

“silverblue doesn't accomplish goal 3 either if you need conflicting dependencies to interact in the same environment”

“Immutable distros like Silverblue, flatpak are moving linux desktop security in the right direction but its far from the default”

“if you want to do anything to change the core system, it quickly becomes a pain”

“you could use something like Fedora Silverblue if you feel like doing some initial explaining”

“saves her a lot of the headaches I've encountered while messing with Arch”

“like Fedora Silverblue, plus throw ~50 million dollars at fixing all the sandboxing”

“part of why I love Silverblue so much is I don't have to worry about upgrades getting botched”

“the last time i tried changing the audio sample rate for an external dac on a silver blue based immutable distro it would reset every time i rebooted”

“it was about 6gb ! I usually run Alpine or FreeBSD, so I thought: great that thing consumes 10x the RAM.”

“you get a similar experience where you don't have to control the operating system yourself”

“it builds a new root fs image whenever you change the installed packages, this makes system package changes take comparatively long”

“A right Linux distro (e.g. Fedora Silverblue) on right hardware (e.g. Thinkpad T series) also just works™”

“I couldnt get the ancient GPU drivers installed due to the way things are containerized.”

“Fedora Silverblue it's better and Cosmic Desktop looks good for a DE in every release”

“But that thing sucks. It is slow. Really dogslow.”

“while I'm not convinced that a mix of OS/Brew/Flatpak/Containers is making things more approachable”

“If you want something extremely reliable, more modern, but may require some learning to tweak: Silverblue or Kinoite.”

“ready to go out of the box (unless you have Nvidia)”

“Linux distros like Silverblue have never been broken due to an update in my experience”

“I would slightly urge towards immutable (Silverblue), but Ubuntu is just fine”

“Not a problem on my Fedora Silverblue 43 machine with dual 4K 27" screens at 125% scaling. Zero blurry apps, including XWayland ones.”

“allow you to enable automatic updates without the fear of breaking everything”

“With rpm-ostree automatic updates are so reliable it's a set and forget experience.”

“Fedora Silverblue / Fedora Bootc with https://universal-blue.org/ and https://blue-build.org/ being good examples.”

“the setup is much easier and probably more robust because it feels less like a hack”

“the Flatpak-centered Fedora Silverblue is the best distribution for beginners”

“Using these immutable distro tools makes it really easy to build your own distributions.”

“my Linux of choice (Silverblue) is predictable and transparent”

“it's been running and updating flawlessly since then”

“though there's still some rough edges to be aware of”

“found immutable OSs to be too inconvenient for development right now”

“it will cover most cases of update induced errors and broken versions”

“It avoids the partially-updated-system instability entirely”

“Imho the future (or present) of normie friendly distros is in atomic linux.”

“I find Silverblue to be much more relaxing _because_ I can't fuck up my laptop one night”