Windows randomly nuking the EFI partition is very much more a reality.

Regular Linux distros have 30+ years of history. It's what most of us are used to. Immutable/atomic/transactional OSes are relatively recent hence the relatively low adoption rate.

Also, atomic OSes are, by nature, much harder to tinker with. After all, the goal is to provide the exact same image for all users. As a power user, it's a bit frustrating. As a new user, having a virtually unborkable system is excellent.

If you plan on installing an atomic variant of Fedora, may I suggest uBlue Aurora instead of Fedora Kinoite? It is based on Silverblue/Kinoite but includes by default, among other QOL improvements, the restricted-licence codecs that must be manually installed in official Fedora products.

This is REAL Linux, done by REAL Linuxians.

"Hello I would like sudo pacman -Syyu apples please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

Is it really worse tho? A single build, against a single runtime, free from distro specificities, packaged by the devs themselves instead of offloading the work on distro maintainers?

A curl piped into a shell or some unofficial packages from various distros.

At this point I don't get why these projects are not Flatpak-first.

It's a tool first and foremost. If you're professionally using a power drill all day everyday, you'll want a very good one that's powerful, reliable and comfortable to use. If you professionally type all day everyday, you're absolutely entitled to use a keyboard that perfectly fits your preferences in terms of feel, comfort, feedback and layout.

SPOILERS: Drive to Survive lead actor Guenther Steiner fired at the end of season 6

Adjusted for inflation, Lewis' 2007 season would have been worth 249 points. Which is even more insane.

X is not going to die, X is already dead.

(great write-up btw ;) )

May I ask why you, as a beginner, specifically chose one of those distros instead of more "mainstream" ones?

Puppy Linux's main use-case is to be a live ISO, that doesn't need to be installed to run. It doesn't mean it's not a good idea to install it, but I think if you want to use an Ubuntu derivative, there are better options for a beginner like Pop or Mint that would let you install a lightweight desktop environment like XFCE, LXDE, LXQt and so on.

Alpine Linux is specifically designed to avoid all the core system tools that are pretty much universal on most other distros like glibc, systemd or GNU tools and libraries, which will make your life hell as a beginner if you need to troubleshoot anything as most "universal" documentation like the Arch wiki would be at best partially relevant, at worst useless.

True.

If GoT taught us anything, if they have Original Source Material^TM^ to adapt, they do a decent job. It's when they are left to improvise that things get awful.

I would get seriously more skeptical if the people in charge of Foundation got their hands on this adaptation tho.