• jamesbunagna@discuss.online
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    10 hours ago

    Bazzite seemed much closer to being truely immutable

    If you meant that it’s even harder to tinker/change/configure etc compared to SteamOS, then I’d like to inform you that this is false. Fedora Atomic, and thus Bazzite, facilitates quite a lot actually. Of course, it’s not as moldable as say Arch or Gentoo. To illustrate this, I won’t bother you with all the things it can do. Because that would take a while. Instead, I’ll only focus on the things it actually can not do. On the top of my head, the following comes to mind:

    • Rip systemd out and replace it with another init, but I’m unaware if traditional Fedora even facilitates this to begin with
    • UKI
    • Setup systemd-boot (or any other bootloader) instead of GRUB
    • Kmods can be hit or miss; what’s found here is accessible. What remains can be very finicky.
    • 3rd party repositories can be hit or miss; for example, both Terra and Tailscale work, but e.g. ProtonVPN may not.
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      10 hours ago

      UKI is something we very much want to do in the future, but it’s a long-term goal

      As far as replacing the init system, I think even in traditional Fedora that would be extremely challenging, but it could probably be done as a custom image.

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        10 hours ago

        Thank you for chiming in and providing your thoughts!

        While we’re at it, I absolutely appreciate your work. Wonderful stuff! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

        UKI is something we very much want to do in the future, but it’s a long-term goal

        That’s lovely to hear!

        As far as replacing the init system, I think even in traditional Fedora that would be extremely challenging, but it could probably be done as a custom image.

        Aight. I’ll change the list then. Thank you for enlightening me on this. The feasibility as a custom image is really encouraging; perhaps I’ll give it a go 😜.