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    11 months ago

    Thx for the elaboration. That’s what I roughly meant with “image centric os”.

    Opensuse aeon encourages you to use flatpak. The first thing it does right after installation is to install apps from flathub, including firefox (unlike silverblue).

    An example from the doc

    For this reason, All Applications, Browsers, Codecs needed for specific apps, etc are provided by FlatPaks from FlatHub.

    Especially the following

    To reiterate: EVERYTHING should be done via Flatpaks or be installed in a Distrobox if a package is not available as a flatpak. Using transactional-update is strictly what you need for your host operating system to work (exotic drivers, specialized vpn services).

    Usually, you do not rollback, you do not go back to an older system. On both systems, you use distrobox and flatpak. I don’t see much of a difference as an end user.

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      11 months ago

      Sorry than, you are correct. I just quickly looked and by default you install only 1 package and reboot, or use continue, or better avoid such practice at all and keep system minimal. I guess for novice end user it is mostly same, but still less user-friendly for advanced user? That is why I decided to go with Silverblue after Workstation, but not completely new way with Aeon, huh…

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        11 months ago

        Fedora has images which you can create yourself as an enduser which means a corporation with thousands of computers can create their own image. They don’t have to create a new distro. That’s not possible with suse but I don’t know if that’s so important since I do not administer such things. I as an enduser do not care about the underlying system, I don’t tinker with it, I rarely touch it. That’s the case for both distros. I may install a vpn or so.

        If you want to tinker with your system, neither fedora nor suse are good for that, using arch is the way to go.

        Why is fedora better for advanced users?

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              11 months ago

              I did not used Aeon, but description how procedural updates work while still does not seems complicated, but layering in fedora seems way easier? Or not? Aeon does not work with snapper (btrfs rollback tool), which is kinda complicated thing, which I used in Fedora Workstation. Maybe actually it is easy, so IDK Why you ask, maybe it would be better to try Aeon and see it yourself?

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                11 months ago

                I just asked because you stated that it’s better for advanced users and I wondered why because I don’t see it yet