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Thoughts on atomic distros?
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I like the idea of immutable distros a lot, but I realised they are not for me, at least not now.
I couldn't install global themes because the SDDM is immutable. There is a workaround, but it didn't work 100% for me.
I couldn't get Steam to put shortcuts on the desktop (it's a known thing, simply I didn't know it). It only worked with Bazzite which comes with Steam preinstalled. But then I couldn't edit these shortcuts (for example: -silent) because if I did, they would vanish.
Then I experimented with Waydroid. There was something I wanted to test but couldn't use the online advice because Bazzite/Aurora doesn't have dnf for example.
There were other little things I'm used to tinker on my system and couldn't so I realised, I wanna stick with other distros for the moment.
In fairness, dnf can be used via Fedora toolbox.
But yeah, I see your point!
Oh, it is annoying part of GNU/Linux that there is no way to override /usr/share/* resources system-wide. It is possible to do for each user by placing files into ~/.local/share but not for the system.