I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

  • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlOP
    3·
    6 months ago

    From OpenSUSE there’s also leap micro. Never used it, but maybe worth looking at.

    I heard of it, but it seems more server/development focused, rather than desktop.

    For instance, I could never get used to dnf, but it’s largely irrelevant on an atomic distro anyways.

    100% agree, dnf is a bummer. Maybe I’ll give Kinoite a shot, as it has many differences with “vanilla” Fedora.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      6 months ago

      What started as openSUSE Micro Desktop is now openSUSE Aeon. It’s still RC2, and RC3 will probably be easier to do a clean install since it will add full disk encryption, but if you want to check it out now it’s reliable and works well.

      • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
        2·
        6 months ago

        Ahhh gotcha. The websites don’t give a good indication of that, unfortunately. Trying to find the differences between OpenSUSE flavors was surprisingly hard. Thanks for the info!

        • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          6 months ago

          In recent turn of events, openSUSE Aeon will probably just be Aeon, and the name openSUSE will disappear everywhere.

    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
      2·
      6 months ago

      Honestly I tried Silverblue, and had a much better time after I rebased to Bluefin. I would recommend going for Aurora over Kinoite. Of course, you can always rebase.