So, I recently got interested with the idea of an atomic distro, particularly the derivatives of Fedora Kinoite (currently testing Aurora).

What’s your experience with them? What are the unexpected troubles and did you manage to resolve them? Do you feel it’s worth it to learn the nuances of their use?

Also, on a personal testing note, did you manage to properly run AppImages and what did you do to make it happen? I couldn’t properly run them either natively or via Fedora toolbox on Aurora. (Also, I borked Aurora within 4 hours of trying to install Outline VPN that consistently had issues with tunneling).

  • Kory
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • kenkenken@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      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.