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KDE Linux (Immutable Distro) Thoughts so far (kde.org)
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I've resisted immutable distros if only because I felt it wasn't "how linux should be." That's probably not even my view because I've only used Linux for 3 years, so I'm not some greybeard. I think its been an attitude in online Linux circles that I read and kind of got morphed into.

Today I decided to try KDE Linux. Its still in alpha, so I'm sure I'll find rough edges, but so far I can do everything I would do on my previous Arch system.

I know with snapper/timeshift you can have the same sort of stability as if you were running an immutable, but it always stresses me out to have a system that can crash. This is all in my head as well because I never had an update mess up my Arch install.

Besides relying on flathub a bunch, everything seems the same, except its an atomic desktop. I'm guessing I'll struggle with some CLI programs, but I can probably use brew for those. I'm also by no means a power user. I'm a regular user. Use the web, watch videos, music, some games. So I don't know why I thought I needed access to my core system at all times, even when I never used it.

Anyone else dipping into immutable now that they've been around a while? Anyone trying the KDE linux distro?

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[-] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

If you install an app via the built in package manager, yep, you’ll have to restart to update the system image, but for most apps you'll need (and don’t require deep system integration), you could just use appimage, flatpak or snap, which will all work without a restart. I’ve actually been using immutable distros for many times I’ve used Linux, and once you use it, it’s easy to get used to it unless your use case would work better on standard Linux.

Also, I don’t follow much if the kernel hotswapping feature news, but I do know that for these immutable distros, a pretty great feature is that you can just rebase the entire distro via a single command if you’d like, and you’ll keep all user data. I’ve actually done it on one of my spare laptops, rebasing from fedora kionite to bazzite linux, and it wasn’t awfully fast, it took an hour or so, but I find it impressive nonetheless.

[-] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

That's really neat. Maybe a new breed of distrohopper will be born.

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