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Immutable distros... (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've got a refurb laptop coming to me soon and I've been wanting to mess with immutable distros for a while... I have no idea what sort of specs the laptop has.

Anyone have any opinions on good immutable distro(s) to try out and why?

Only distros on my list so far are Bluefin and Vanilla (Gnome isn't a favorite these days though).

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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe Fedora Silverblue? Bluefin is built on top of Fedora anyways. You will find more support online for Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite over Bluefin.

I know Bazzite over Silverblue/Kinoite can make sense so that you can have RPM steam and also not deal with the Nvidia driver hassle on immutable distros, but the advantages of using Bluefin is a bit unclear.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Reason to use Bluefin is to not have any proprietary software (aka Steam) included while still having all the open source bells and whistles from Universal Blue (Distrobox, Just, brew, devcontainers, fzf, ripgrep, etc).

    Though I guess Bluefin does include the proprietary nvidia drivers.

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