blendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic - blendOS
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Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic.
  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    5 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:
      • try familiarizing yourself with the command line
      • get overwhelmed with all the distro choices available
        • get bitten by the distro-hopping bug (“Gotta try them all!”)
          • and then try Distrobox (“ALL the distros at once!”)
    • »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