Not sure if there’s been a more recent update but this post on the future (and past) of Fedora Silverblue is very informative if you’re interested in learning more about this immutable OS that I’m loving so far.

blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/09

#fedora #silverblue

@aral Honestly, I really dislike their approach, as far as I understand it? It's like it's trying to do *kind of* the same thing as Nix/NixOS are, but instead of providing a robust foundation with building blocks for everybody to use in novel ways (or hell, even building on Nix directly), they implement a really monolithic model with vendored dependencies and "the OS" as a chunk of the system with a privileged status?

Like, I can understand those sort of design choices being made in a corporate environment where there's one authoritative distributor of The System, but it just feels like it's throwing away so much potential in terms of 'democratizing' system management - like, it's trying to treat the symptoms, not the systemic problem underlying them.

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@aral Okay, second attempt at expressing what I mean, more succinctly this time:

It's like the design objective behind the Nix model is "building a more robust foundation for users to work with their system in the way that works best for them", whereas the design objective behind the Fedora model is "releasing a more reliable product for people to consume".

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