“an Android”?

As in a ROM or a device? 🤔

Nice

Good to see one of the two big packaging hubs do something against malware

Removing /repo is not considered safe, but I just removed its contents anyways and then just ran a repair.

That actually resulted in more available disk space than after running the garbage collection.

And my flatpak apps still work 🤷‍♀️

How well does Ansible work when I want to change my config? Is a quick reboot sufficient!

What do you use, then?

Given the context, I’d assume either Arch or Fedora Silverblue 🤔

Fedora Silverblue and NixOS looking very interesting ✨👀

Thanks for the detailed response.

I’ll probably go for either a Fedora Atomic Desktop or NixOS.

Thanks, that makes sense.

Do you think the use of OCI containers/images is a mistake/bad choice from blendOS?
How is NixOS different?

How do those compare to NixOS and blendOS in your opinion in terms of usability, flexibility and stability, considering an (at least mostly) tech-literate audience?

Given I’m still on Manjaro, would you recommend I consider NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, or blendOS?

downloads a lot more than other distros on update, and uses more disk space

why is that?

Thanks for your suggestion, but I’ll never use snaps/snapcraft/snapd by choice;

I do see the reasons for why developers/app maintainers may want to (universally) package themselves, but we’ve got Flatpak for that.

Less loopback devices = better imho

it’s broken by design

what do you mean by that?

I’ve got Nix OS running on one of my computer

That’s very interesting 👀
Why did you choose NixOS?

Thank you; that was very insightful 😊

Also: I think rpm-ostree only supports rpm-based packages, tho; right?

Can I install .deb software too?
And is there any kind of system-as-a-config-file kind of solution available like in NixOS or blendOS?

You look at defaults and think this is linux.

What do you mean by that?

On the Fedora Atomic website, they write:

Project Atomic is now sunset

The Atomic Host platform is now replaced by CoreOS. Users of Atomic Host are encouraged to join the CoreOS community

Do you think CoreOS is a good fit for a desktop?
I always thought it’s more of a server distro.

On a related note: Would you recommend Fedora Silverblue?

I think NixOS is awesome

how well is it suited as a daily driver for dev work & playing games?

Sorry for my ignorance,
but why is blendOS not a viable competitor to NixOS?

Daily driver;

• Dev work (VS Code) 👩‍💻
• Using Firefox 🔥🦊🛜
• Playing games every now and then (mostly Steam & Proton) 🎮

Silverblue is sure not limited to only flatpaks.

Oh 👀
I didn’t know that; I knew you could modify the underlying system, but doesn’t that result in new A/B snapshots, or something like that?

toolbox/distrobox

Sure, but I’d like to have a more seamless experience, i.e. not having to open/start any “containers” or something like that.

Also, can I “normally”/traditionally install software on NixOS, e.g. through Steam?

Based. Good riddance 🏌️‍♀️