What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I’ll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

  • j0rge@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    If you kept a basic minimal Ubuntu host it would be trivial to maintain.

    That’s not true for most people.

    I just don’t see the point. You want new users to understand containers.

    You don’t need to understand containers unless you’re using the system for development – which in Linux land means containers.

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      9 months ago

      That’s not true for most people.

      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.