You’re welcome to your opinion ;)

Fair cop on the inconveniences, although I’ve found it fine after an adaption phase, coming from fedora it was lesser than hopping to a new distro. Hard agree on knowing the nuances being problematic, clarity and accessible education is sorely missing, certainly the steepest part of the learning curve.

I just run ‘distrobox upgrade -all’ in my Daily.service, didn’t need quadlets (although after adaption I quite like them for containers now).

Why would I use a system that isn’t supposed to change if I want to change it?

There’s a bunch of benefits, atomic updates, intrinsic rollback, security of immutability, safe automatic updating and it goes on. Some things are not quite ready yet, e.g. things like sddm which should probably install themes to /etc (which they’re working on), so as often happens in linux, workarounds ensue. Making one directory mutable does not destroy all the benefits.

Yeah, I had that at the beginning, then added to my fstab

#enable sddm and therefore good themes
/var/sddm /usr/share/sddm none rbind 0 0

and KDE themes with sddm components install fine now (most themes install fine into /home, does Gnome really not have per user themes?)

Essentially you can tactically make things mutable as needed, use sparingly, but maybe not even trying lessens your opinion, no?

Yeah, I had that at the beginning, then added to my fstab

# enable sddm and therefore good themes
/var/sddm /usr/share/sddm none rbind 0 0

and then it works, kludgy, but sddm is apparently working on allowing themes in /etc, sometime soon.

Inconvenient package management

Fair.

If there’s a flatpak, no problem.

Once you realize you do package management in distroboxes rather than the main OS (rpm-ostree etc), no problem, plus you have the AUR at your disposal.

So Ima go not fair, although there is something of an education gap atm.

Be aware that halfway decent backup solutions dedupe. Which is not to say you shouldn’t clean your removed up. I vote https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka.

AGI, then ASI. Goalposts change…

Also note that Thinkpads up to a couple of years ago (when soldering RAM became a thing) are mostly trivial to open and upgrade RAM / drives, so you don’t have to care about those and can pick up a bargain (look to T480 at the moment (not the TN screen tho), or whatever is 3 years or so old, as that’s the corporate fleets that are getting dumped onto the market).

Fingerprint readers are definitely hit or miss… If you care make sure it was originally specced for linux (usually at least Red Hat), then you’re probably good for any distro.

I used to Arch, now I’m on ublue-kinoite with an Arch distrobox. Is there a reason to consider switching? (actual genuine question, not trolling)

Wouldn’t it be nice to set 'em all up to want something (perhaps the glowing suitcase (soul?) from Pulp Fiction) and watch the greedy bastards fight, fight, fight…?

Hopefully without adding too much confusion, using rpm-ostree to add systemwide new packages/applications is generally to be avoided, keep your main OS clean and stable (thankfully bazzite has done the heavy lifting here for you already for all the gaming stuff, codecs etc). General apps (office, media etc) are usually installed via flatpak (using kde discover or gnome software).

If / when you want to explore the deeper (CLI / obscure things without flatpaks) Linux world open a terminal and enter

distrobox-create --name fedora-mutable --image fedora:latest --home ~/fedora-mutable
distrobox enter fedora-mutable

You can now go ahead and use dnf, install whatever with no risk of breaking your main system. But wait, there’s more, ‘exit’ out of fedora-mutable, type

distrobox-create --name arch --image archlinux:latest --home ~/arch
distrobox enter arch

You now have all the AUR (Arch User Repository) at your disposal, install practically any Linux program in existence, and use ‘distrobox export’ to put it in your main OS applications list. It’s pretty glorious. Remember to make homes for your distroboxes so they don’t pollute your main home.

Well, that’s disappointing.

Also my experience, but before they made transference a thing they controlled.

tried bazzite ? nvidia issues ?

So, still no official, sigh. Along with potentially rustdesk, I’ve found Sunshine/Moonlight useful but setup sucks.

Better luck next time.

Si, correcto. Strawberry is solid.

Fair enough, it’s not well explained. If something isn’t available, install it in a distrobox and export it, same effect, but you keep your OS clean…

I’m ex-Arch, but I use Arch distroboxes (yes, plural) for dev work. All the AUR goodness, none of the OS stability issues, it’s glorious.