If you want it to be then it can. The risk of a failed update is vastly overblown.
You don’t need to understand containers unless you’re using the system for development – which in Linux land means containers.
Oh but you do. 1 hour into using Silverblue I was chastised by other users for “using it like any other Linux distro” when I started installing things into the “base” system with rpm-ostree. “Don’t you know you should be doing that in a container?” I was asked.
I was just installing command-line utilities. Which I’m apparently supposed to do in a toolbox or other container which allows me to have… a mutable distro where I can do all the things I do in a “normal” OS. And which will require updating separately from the host OS. And which don’t quite work right for everything because they’re containers? Like you can’t install httpd in one.
That’s not true for most people.
You don’t need to understand containers unless you’re using the system for development – which in Linux land means containers.
If you want it to be then it can. The risk of a failed update is vastly overblown.
Oh but you do. 1 hour into using Silverblue I was chastised by other users for “using it like any other Linux distro” when I started installing things into the “base” system with rpm-ostree. “Don’t you know you should be doing that in a container?” I was asked.
I was just installing command-line utilities. Which I’m apparently supposed to do in a toolbox or other container which allows me to have… a mutable distro where I can do all the things I do in a “normal” OS. And which will require updating separately from the host OS. And which don’t quite work right for everything because they’re containers? Like you can’t install
httpdin one.