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  • Stuff you do and don’t document or don’t force yourself to recognize comes back to bite you years later when you can’t use the normal tooling in order to deal with it.

    And it’s this right here that forces me to really consider if Bazzite is right for me in this case (and why I didn’t just immediately go with the easier rpm-ostree option). Podman is kind of a necessary tool, at least currently, and if your use case falls outside flatpaks, rpm-ostree, and appimages, it’s Podman or bust (and I currently have an app like that, which I haven’t yet figured out).

    I appreciate your experienced advice. I have probably a total five years of experience, so I would be foolish not to consider to the long-timers offering similar advice in these comments.


  • Atomic distros are very much a work in progress and they do have issues you won’t find in non-atomic distros.

    And this is kind of how I’m starting to look at it, after reading all of these comments. There definitely feels like there’s a disconnect between services like Podman and atomic ideology born out of the fact that they were created with different goals in mind. If the two can be married a bit better, the learning curve can be flattened (and I think that’s a distinct future possibility, since Podman and Fedora Atomics have Red Hat backing).

    Regarding breaks, being able to rollback is very handy, and I’ve used it many times when I was running Bazzite on my Steam Deck. Regressions happen, and I’ve experienced problematic regressions on non-atomic distros where my only option was to reinstall. This will be my daily driver that needs near full uptime, so whatever I pick, it’s gotta be solid without entirely sacrificing relative newness (i.e. not Debian).

    Either way, there’s more to consider than I initially thought, and I appreciate your input.




  • Telorand@reddthat.comOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlAm I overthinking it?
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    12 hours ago

    Very good advice, though I’ve personally been dabbling for many years and generally know a handful of things. Still, I would recommend the same thing for anyone new to Linux. There’s some fantastic options, these days!

    I might just be a glutton for punishment, however. 😆




  • If Btrfs snapshots + Snapper would have been sufficient, then openSUSE themselves would never have desired the creation of openSUSE MicroOS (i.e. their attempt at an ‘immutable’ distro) in the first place.

    An excellent point.

    But to your earlier one, I can get the VPN client working outside of a container. There’s even an RPM file from the vendor, so installing it is just as easy as installing any other package.

    I appreciate the input!