And that distro, or rather distro family is Fedora Atomic distros.

Anyone completely switching off windows needs a bulletproof system, and you just can’t get that with other distros. Especially if you’re allowed to modify system files. Universal Blue is the only project I’d consider to be aligned with this idea.

  • For the non programmer: Aurora
  • For the developer: Blue Fin
  • For the gamer: Bazzite

Users can install new apps via the Bazaar, or command line tools via homebrew. And that’s it.

If you want to mess around with other systems, you can use distro shelf or a spare computer. But if you’re a newbie, I wouldn’t even recommend Linux Mint anymore.

My daily distro is EndeavourOS btw.

  • pheusie@programming.dev
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    11 days ago

    Sorry to say, but there’s a lot questionable stuff found within your comment. But I will try to limit the discussion around some of the more egriogous ones.

    Hate to keep litigating this around here, but the shift alone is enough. Explaining to people WTF an immutable filesystem is, is a sure way to frustrate them into giving up, despite whatever comms finesse you might THINK you have.

    I don’t understand what’s so hard to understand about (some) core system files being read-only, i.e. you can’t change/modify it. Can you help me understand why that would cause so much frustration?

    Counterpoint: STOP SUGGESTING IMMUTABLE DISTROS TO NEW USERS

    Countering the counterpoint with an anecdote: I cold turkey switched from Windows to Fedora Silverblue almost 4 years ago. Bazzite (or other uBlue images) weren’t even around back then. And, somehow, I managed. And there are many other testimonials that point out something similar. Are you ignoring this empirical evidence? If so, on what basis?

    there is ZERO benefit

    Come on, you know that’s not true. Perhaps the following formulation could be true: “I suppose there is ZERO benefit to me (and others like me)”.