Dnf-5 was/is supposed to be a big speed improvement, no?

Biometric data is useful for establishing identity, that can be used to correlate data better and for surveillance purposes.

Probably my next distro! Can't wait to try it out. The only next steps I would take is getting k8s into manage my services by default.

Oh man the amount of hours I put in cleaning out the pre installed garbage on those windows 8 machines

Honestly I feel like parents should be limited to companies based on size. Like at least fortune 500 should get extra legal protection, but maybe even straight limited to less than 200 employees and less than a certain capital evaluation (harder one to pin point).

The container concept is super useful for with CI/CD tools. So I could update my config have it spin up just the layers I care about run tests and if it passes then switch out the old piece of the running system.

Make it easy enough and you can get users testing super bespoke systems and possibly sharing the results with others helping catch the edge cases sooner.

At least that is part of my dream on it. Of user oriented distributed systems is also something I've worked towards here and there.

You can make Deb and rpm from nix packages supposedly.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nixpkgs/Building_RPM_DEB_with_nixpkgs

Sticking to reproduceable builds also makes sense for development and troubleshooting, less variables to run down.

Btrfs and Ostree definitely are different approaches to the problem. Btrfs has all the benefits you mentioned (cow filesystems and snapshots are just awesome) but it doesn't support the system layers like Ostree does. So you can't easily export a btrfs system into a container for example or rebase your OS on a new image.

To me both a super useful together too but covering different domains, everything mutable needs a backup and recovery method too, even on an Ostree system.

Stuff like guix and nix also cover a lot of these domains too (or can at least), but still leave stuff like user data as an exercise for the system admin to handle (though an exercise you can use guix/nix to configure something like btrfs to handle!).

I do really like the portals system included in flatpak, plus OCI just has wider support (and tooling) then nix and guix atm. They are both, in my eyes, the next part of the dream of a fully defined system though, so I expect the tooling and support to keep growing!

The fact that apps can be deployed at different paces definitely is a real double edged sword. On one hand it prevent an app who prioritizes a fix low on the list from slowing down other apps on the same system, meaning everything should be able to update ASAP. It also means that the slower updating ones have less community/business pressure telling them to get fixed.

Driver support or fan profile maybe?

Oh no I meant just using libreoffice. I don't even want to MS Office on windows, trying to get to work on wine seems like a nightmare.