• Leaflet@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    3 months ago

    Good point about immutability and his comment about not wanting to break his system, i forgot about that when writing. But I disagree about Arch, snaps, those are technical details. Not sure which broken packages you’re talking about or why him using modified Gnome matters.

    The Universal Blue distros are cool though, though I’ve only briefly used their lightly modified main image.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      3 months ago

      GNOME has very little settings.

      I actually gave Fedora Silverblue a try, documented here. This was not beginner friendly at all and still lacked many features in the end.

      So this is the issue when GNOME doesnt allow basic things, like editing desktop files in a guided way, showing package names etc.

      Ubuntu has had broken packages for a lot of 3rd party software (when I last used it, a few years ago), for example SciDAVis which I used, and Libreoffice and more. Flatpak works without issues here. Beginners will not add Flatpak and have issues here.

      I didnt say anything about Arch I think. He also doesnt care about that. Using Arch as base really just makes sense for Valve, as it is neutral, not legally restricted etc.

      uBlue deals with the constant sync (and coordination) issues between Fedora and rpmfusion. When using Arch, this is not needed.