It’s basically Nobara, but properly done. (If you choose the desktop version)

It gets updates automatically (max one day after upstream Fedora), has everything you want ootb in the first start wizard, is more secure, and much more.

I was very sceptical at first, but after trying it out, I really noticed some minor performance improvements in games and many QoL improvements, e.g. the preinstalled LACT, which allows me to set up fan curves and over-/ underclock my GPU.

Setting up my new PC took me about half an hour maximum.

9/10, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smooth gaming experience.

I can’t tell you if Void or any other minimal distro is significantly faster relatively to something more comfortable than Fedora.
But even if it is, then I would still use something “bloated” because it just works and requires less input from my side.
Booting takes just seconds anyway with NVMe disks, so why bother if it takes 4 or 5 seconds, if the PC runs smoother for the next days it is powered on?

Use whatever distro you like more, and install your packages with Distrobox. Here’s a post I made a while ago about it: https://feddit.de/post/8018330

I personally enjoy Fedora Atomic even more than the mutable version, but in your case, you would have to decide for yourself.

I would recommend you to use Fedora Atomic, namely universal-blue.org.
It’s the stock Fedora Atomic, but they offer a Cinnamon spin with baked in Nvidia drivers.
If you don’t know why you should choose an immutable distro, especially as content creator, who wants everything to be always working, check out my post here: https://feddit.de/post/8234416

With that, you can use Distrobox and create a CentOS/ whatever container, which DVR officially recommends and will work best.
You can also check out my post here: https://feddit.de/post/8018330

Dude… As soon as anyone mentions image based distros, you come up with the same copypasta everytime.
You also never come up with any good counter arguments if someone disagrees with your statements.

While IBDs aren’t the holy grail, they certainly can and will transform the Linux ecosystem for the better.

It was only to show that you don’t need root access to get a working device.
As I said, I had to lie a bit so that everyone gets my point.

If you know how Android’s storage system works in every detail, you’re not the demographic I had in my mind.
The post is mainly to get a rough understanding, not to nitpick on every detail.

When I installed Tumbleweed not so long ago, I also had problems. The installer is notorious for giving you an unusable system sometimes, even when using the defaults.

Don’t worry mate!
Sometimes, things are not as user friendly as they should be, it’s not your fault. I started without any knowledge or IT background only 3 years ago too and you will get the hang of it soon.
And don’t fixate too much on what “you’re supposed to use”. Only because image-based OSs are hip now, doesn’t mean Mint or whatever else is useless.

Same for me!

I didn’t want to include my own experiences, but I’m also a “noob”.
I never worked in IT and only try new things, like Linux, Android custom ROMS, selfhosting, and more, because I just enjoy it.
But in the end, I just want a modern and reliable system that doesn’t get into my way.

I will include that information in my next post tho, where I wanna show that this technology is usable by everyone, even a dumbass like myself.

I even had the same problem with the MullbadVPN-app, where I just gave up in the end and used the Wireguard protocol implementation from Gnome.

Thanks!

Yeah, of course you’re right. As I said in the beginning, I had to lie a bit for simplification.

But, rebooting is the recommended way to keep everything running buttery smooth. I personally also recommend just sticking to the usage guidelines, since you don’t have to layer any stuff on regular basis. Just rebooting and losing one minute once a while is worth it for me. I work in containers anyway, see my Distrobox-post.

The --apply-live-tag also only applies to rpm-ostree, not to A/B-root afaik, and I wanted to keep it a bit more general.

Thanks! 🙂

Fedora Atomic also uses symlinks. Basically everything is stored in /var/, including your /home/.

I really recommend giving it a try if you want. My top recommendation is uBlue, either Gnome or KDE. There are also many other images around if you want, depending what you like.

Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard too. Right now, dual booting seems to be hard too on the same drive. I think it’s because if the unusual disk layout.

You have got to be the biggest promoter of immutable distros on lemmy.

I unironically think I might be that. One of the main reasons I wrote this post is to just send it as “read further” option when I recommend uBlue in every second thread.

If I wouldn’t post other stuff, one might think I am a bot or something 😅

i feel they are great for the casual users who will just browse the web, play some games and maybe do some document reading and editing.

Yes, as one partial group. If you don’t use your PC to its full potential, you won’t run into problems. 90% is web based anyway.

Right now, they are super interesting especially for early adopters and experienced users. For the middle ground user, e.g. if you researched for Linux yourself but don’t have much experience otherwise, you might run into some problems that require other people to help you or a bit of research on forums.
But I don’t think that will happen anyway and I still would recommend it to most people.

Canonical: “Hey, I’ve heard you all hate Snaps.”
Community: “Yeah, they suck! Use Flatpaks and other technologies instead, like everyone else.”
Canonical: “Alright. Here’s a whole distro with Snaps at its’ base. You’re welcome!”
Community: “…”