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).
While shopping around for a distro for my gaming box, I tried NixOS and Bazzite. Both were fine, but the atomicity made everything more complicated without any practical upsides for my use case.
So I’m just using Nobara, which is a gaming-optimized Fedora. For my laptop, I’m just using Arch, it’s much less hassle. The declarativeness of centralization of NixOS is alluring, but I don’t really need it.
I will say that Bazzite and the rest of the Universal Blue distros are going to be moving to bootc eventually, which should hopefully make things much easier for end-users to customize. Layering with rpm-ostree is fine for a lot of people, but only if your software can be found via the Fedora free and non-free repos or comes as an RPM.
It’s great for most, and they have a lot of additional ujust commands to make other changes, but doing things like ricing or installing a proprietary binary can be tricky or impossible.
