I’ve been feeling gushy about my setup lately, I think I’ve finally found my home on Linux. For decades I’ve distrohopped each year and never was really happy with it all, but Fedora Atomic has changed that.
Some things I can do with Fedora Atomic that I cannot do with other Linux distros:
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I can rebase to Bazzite for gaming performance when I feel like having a long gaming session.
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I can rebase to Secureblue when I think I will not be gaming and would prefer a more secure linux setup.
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I can update my system and not have to worry about special instructions, its extremely stable. Many times in the past, running a small ma-and-pa distro with most things pre-configed for performance would end with it breaking after a couple of major updates. This isn’t true for configs like Bazzite and Secureblue, they are remarkably stable across many major updates due to how rpm-ostree functions.
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Distrobox and Flatpak are more than enough at this stage for most programs and they help you avoid making too many alterations to the base image, greatly speeding up the swaps between major images.
The kicker? Your user configs and home files are never changed when you ‘image hop’. It always feels like you just installed a fresh distro whenever you upgrade, and the performance benefits are noticeable. You don’t have to tinker and do the same changes over and over, its all handled for you by rpm-ostree.
10/10 this is the future of Linux. I hope for a future where I can rebase entire Linux distros while maintaining my configs with one simple command, but for now, Fedora Atomic is fantastic.
The downsides:
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There is one major downside, and its that all of your system files are read-only. Personally, I’ve found a dozen ways to get around this, it requires thinking inside the Distrobox. It is a notable issue for many people, though. This means you cannot make specific tweaks without making a whole new image for yourself. Though in practice, I have found the ecosystem has grown a lot. Other people have already made the best tweaks available for you with only a few simple commands.
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Rpm-ostree also is slow to update because its essentially building a whole git tree to make sure your updates never break and are as stable as possible. You also have to reboot each time you alter it, which can be annoying, but if you stick to flatpaks and distroboxes, this issue is mitigated significantly.
Strictly speaking, for my posts[1] (i.e. my comments aren’t included into the conversation yet), I do heavily employ an LLM as a writing assistant. But the process those undergo is very different from the comment you see above; it takes a lot of time, effort and many revisions until I land on something I like.
As for my comments, it depends: if it’s longer, I employ it to help with shortening while retaining the content I meant to convey. Or, to help with wording/phrasing specific troublesome passages that either don’t flow well or if I’m unsure if idioms (and whatnot) have been used correctly.
While I don’t like to bring it up, some people -naturally- have the tendency to write up texts that are (somehow) reminiscent to what we’d expect from an AI. FWIW, I have many times been accused of this while the text was all just me…
Finally, to directly address the comment found above: No; I don’t think I can recall any other comment that was as carelessly composed as that one. And to directly answer your following question:
Nope. I can’t recall the last time -prior to the one above- in which I did something similar. And, again, content-wise, it is me. The LLM mostly just made it legible.
Which there are only three of at the time of writing. ↩︎
Would you want a piece of good faith, sincere advice? If not I can drop things.
Sure, fam. Hit me.
Though, this confuses me… *confused* 🤔 Would you only drop them if I didn’t want it? For now, I’ll assume that’s just a typo (or something/whatsoever).