Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.

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    1 year ago

    This is why fedora had a little bar after rebooting when I updated right? What am I a Windows user?!? This is the extent of my understanding of immutable distros and I am furious with them.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know what you mean with your comment?

      The progress bar on Gnome-based distros like Fedora and Ubuntu was their offline install.
      This increases the likelihood of a successful update without borking your system.
      You can always deactivate that or update via terminal.

      It has nothing to do with immutable OSs. Actually, most of them even update without you noticing, which is quite convenient imo!

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        1 year ago

        I was mostly joking and I might have been mis-attributing the delay. From the time’s I’ve had Fedora, including with KDE, if I update I have a pause during the next boot where I have to let the install finish before getting back to functional. My belief was that this was because the immutable system could not be running while updating, compared to non-immutable where a standard reboot works with a new kernel et al.

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      1 year ago

      No. You don’t see or feel the update with silverblue. You see the update with the normal workstation version. The immutable version fixes that.

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        1 year ago

        I have corrected the one thing I know about immutable distros and am now furious with all others.