I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to.
My question is: what are good immutable distros other than Fedora Silverblue spins, UBlue family and NixOS?
Maybe someone uses/used any? What is/was your experience with it?

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been using Opensuse Aeon just over a year and it’s done great.

    Tumbleweed user for the last 5 years, and dealt with a few issues over that time. The usually infrequent update break that comes with rolling release. And the Opensuse ‘Patterns’ started, which I loathe and it’s a disaster to try to disable them every install.

    Aeon hasn’t had any of those issues. It’s been very much a “turn it on and get to work”.

    I’ve generally had less issues with Aeon than Tumbleweed - like certain flatpaks not crashing.

    But downsides as I see them:

    I’m not a gnome guy. It’s fine though, I don’t hate it. But some people can’t stand it.

    I had a bit of trouble running wine. Something about the default security policy. There’s a known workaround.

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        4 months ago

        Kalpa needs to attract more developers to keep up with Aeon’s pace. I understand it is usable as a daily driver, but it’s not just a one to one mirror of Aeon with Plasma on top.

        https://sfalken.tech/posts/2024-06-08-how-do-aeon-and-kalpa-relate/

        Richard Brown is all in on Aeon along with whatever contributors are helping him. Stephen Falken appears to have no one helping him work on Kalpa unfortunately. I disagree with Richard’s stance that Kalpa shouldn’t exist, but I do wish there were some capable people able to help that project.

        I don’t mind using Gnome anyway, it actually does solve some networking issues that I’ve always had with Plasma. (Dolphin not handling it well whilst Gnome Files has no issues)