I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Distrobox updates automatically

    True, forgot that you use topgrade

    Atomic Fedora should not have Firefox in image

    There are many relevant issues and it is not a clear choice.

    Irrelevant. Not everybody does.

    Yeah and nobody knows about user namespaces or seccomp filters. This is about at least 2 user groups and one is not necessarily more important than another.

    It is again not a clear choice.

    a way to continue to prevent it, I will.

    * in your opinionated images, I hope.

    You start to sound like a GrapheneOS dev. It makes no sense to prevent users from reinstalling removed packages.

    Which btw also include the Fedora Flathub repository.

    • quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      Which btw also include the Fedora Flathub repository.

      We no longer touch the repos as Fedora is now in agreement with using Flathub.

      You start to sound like a GrapheneOS dev. It makes no sense to prevent users from reinstalling removed packages.

      It’s for user security. I have no interest in debating this decision, my reasons are outlined.