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Thoughts on atomic distros? (lemmy.today)
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So, I recently got interested with the idea of an atomic distro, particularly the derivatives of Fedora Kinoite (currently testing Aurora).

What's your experience with them? What are the unexpected troubles and did you manage to resolve them? Do you feel it's worth it to learn the nuances of their use?

Also, on a personal testing note, did you manage to properly run AppImages and what did you do to make it happen? I couldn't properly run them either natively or via Fedora toolbox on Aurora. (Also, I borked Aurora within 4 hours of trying to install Outline VPN that consistently had issues with tunneling).

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[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

It's pretty useful for systems you want to be reliable but don't need too many customisations (like Bazzite on gaming machines).

Although if we're counting NixOS, it's the declarative config aspect that is the main selling point for me, with atomic updates just being part of it.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

The problem with Nix is that is it a pain and specific to Nix. I prefer Ansible as it is cross compatible and much more portable. I can do things like write a playbook to configure DNS of HTTPS

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