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  • ive had supprisingly little issues with flatpaks.

    i have been running silverblue for about half a year now, and rely heavily on them.

    i can remember 3 distinct issues:

    vs code commandlines start in the sandbox, which needs a workarround (rather understandable)

    either the fedora, or the flathub build of firefox didnt come with some video codec, OpenH264 i think. switching to the other build fixed it (imo more a licensing issue with the codec than a flatpak problem)

    on rare occasions (about once every 3 month)
    steam behaves weirdly, and refuses to start until i update the flatpak.

    other than that, it has been a smoth ride.



  • i settled on fedora kde a few years ago(altho i recently switched to fedora silverblue kde)
    imo a nice middleground.

    if you are intrested in immutable distros, i can recommend silverblue (not as drastic of a change compared to nixos)

    if you are intrested in nixos package management, you might want to try out the nix package manager on your current distro.

    an intresting way to get the fresh but stable system you want is to,
    install some rock solid distro like debian,
    and then use the nix package manager and/or flatpacks to get the fresh software you want.