I don’t think SUSE is really a large corporation

It's available on the experimental, out-of-tree branch fairydust

This kind of immutable distros require a very specific partitioning scheme. I tried a couple years ago trying to match the requirements while preserving/reusing my other volumes but it was too finicky and the installation kept failing. I ended up just installing it on its own in a different device that is more fit for purpose (a small PC plugged to my TV). It works great for that use case, but it's not worth experimenting with it beyond that, imho.

Any stable distro that features a more stable Plasma, without always changing features, for my 60+ dad? Aside from it being a constant beta-version, it has some nice desktop tooling vs. Gtk XFCE.

Staff criticized a very specific thing, not a vibe: the approach for installing software.

You don't really need to use the terminal at all if you just stick with the software that's available in flatpak / bazaar. If you had to use the terminal then that means you most likely wanted to install software / tweak stuff outside of the intended channels.

I don't think Bazzite is very suitable as an all-purpose distro or a distro for people who want to tweak or use the terminal much, it was originally designed as a SteamOS distro (before Valve made available their own SteamOS image), intended to be installed in Steam Deck / Steam Box style devices. I use it in a living room PC for gaming and watching videos and it works perfectly for this usecase. For desktop / laptop I run a different Linux distro.

No, SUSE lays off workers because it has been purchased by private equity ghouls and they have been looking to flip it quickly this past year.

I had a few issues when i first started using it but that was because i wanted to tinker and i installed using the rpm-tree thing and at one point it broke updates. But it was easy to fix because of it being an atomic os and all i had to do was reinstall it with a rebase in the terminal, restart the pc afterwards and not only was i fully updated on a "fresh" install, without all of my goober breakages glommed on, i still kept all of my userdata, flatpaks, games and saves. Was great.

I really need to explore atomic for my daily driver at some point, but the tinkerer in me still loves the freedom of arch.

Fedora was originally based on Red Hat. Later it became the main open distro in that family, and now Red Hat Enterprise is based on Fedora.

Cool story. I must be imagining it.

The executive compensation package bonus structure common to most large corporations

If you are using only Docker, you don't need a Linux distribution at all. Just install alpine slim, busybox, or any Kubernetes worker node build.

Flatpak, much like snap, appimage, and other programs trying to shove old, hole-ridden libraries down my throat under the pretext that "the build is too complex," is not the kind of software I would welcome on my PC. I'd rather build the application by hand.

I've been thinking how to reply to this. IDK how to make it coherent so I'll just dump my ramblings. So sorry to subject you to the song of my people brain.

So basically I decided one day I just wiped Windows off my machine for forgotten reasons and replaced it with cachyOS. the installation was pretty straight forward since I'm doing basically a clean install. I also forgot why I decided to wipe CachyOS and install bazzite 2 months ago.

I think using both cachy and bazzite as is, like installing doing basic things such as installing from their respective software store, it is identical. no fussing about. cachy has more options out of the box that they show you while bazzite is a bit more streamlined. it's when you brought your Windows tinkering monkey brain and want to monkey around that there might be some problems I feel like.

cachy being arch derived, there's always the arch wiki to plumb the depths on to learn and do almost anything. so I'm pretty good at following instructions like that.

so because of my tinkering monkey brain, the additional layers on bazzite of using mostly flatpaks, how to control and extend configurations on them, and all that somehow short circuits my brain a bit somehow.

in other rambling points, bazzite is definitely has a lot better presentation out of the box. cachy's choice of their software store is uh, very software engineer aesthetics and UX.

I couldn't get cachy to stick to using colemak for everyday usage, and have steam games default to qwerty when playing them and have to change keyboard layouts before I start the game. on bazzite I didn't have to do that, most of the time.

I think next I want to try nobara, another gaming focused distro, but this time it's full fedora, not the atomic fedora based bazzite.

old and dying LCD steam deck

Umm, the steam deck hasn't existed long enough for that to be a thing, it only came out 4 years ago. I have mine from September release year and use it every day, fresh as the day I got it. I'd be pretty hacked off if it seemed 'old and dying' already! And it's my only decent computer, I need it to be going for several more years 😅

Technically, you are right. But this is due to the different release systems.

In Debian, security updates for the stable version are distributed via the security repository until a new point release is created. The last point release was two months ago.

However, in practice, on Debian Trixie, you get the fixed version by running a standard apt update & apt upgrade.

splits and tabs

Sadly also a feature I'm missing switching from Konsole to Alacritty and the dev doesn't seem interested in implementing.

The only distro that simply never caused me any trouble at all.

Immutability is a double-edged sword tho

I run it on my daily driver laptop and I'm happy as a clam.

Nope, they're completely separate distro families!

Because Mint does release minor releases every 6 months

Been using for about a year now, and I love it. Only real complaint is that battery life is not as good.

I'm pretty certain that Fedora (immutable ones) mentions this, as well as Bazzite does probably, that it should not work with other OS installs on the same drive/partition.

Still no USB-C display out? I thought they announced that for testing back in January?

There was a few missing features last I checked but other than that the UX is a lot better than macOS IMO

Evidence for this besides hopes and dreams?

No it's not. Fedora got pedantic about the term "immutable" but there are more than a few that use Atomic or Immutable and they are different things.

Atomic is all-or-nothing upgrades, Immutable is a read-only OS structure (this is what Fedora got picky about as being ambiguous).