blendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic - blendOS
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Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic.
  • Masterbaexunn@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I just wanted to say this is all very confusing. I barely installed Ubuntu on my laptop as a daily driver mostly due to the MS Recall debacle. It’s fine, it’s great. However, reading all the Linux Lemmy posts makes me feel like I’ll never understand. I know all these words and what they mean, just not in an OS context.

    • cerement@slrpnk.net
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      7 months ago
      • repeat the “Don’t sweat it.”
      • Ubuntu is a perfectly fine starting point (the other “beginner distro” that’s commonly recommended is LinuxMint)
      • »AFTER« you become comfortable with what you have:
      • »THEN« take a look at immutable distros
        • “immutable distro” is a catch-all term that embraces several concepts
          • immutable – the root filesystem is set to read-only – makes it harder to mess up your system
          • declarative – your hardware and packages and configs are declared in a master configuration file
          • atomic / transactional – updates are checked as they’re applied, if it fails, it gets rolled back to a previous “safe state”
          • container / sandbox – ex. Flatpak or Docker or OCI – apps are isolated in their own sandbox and not allowed to mess up anything else