I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    uBlue f**ed up their site a while ago, they had a huge list of images.

    You can just use their kinoite-main image, which is what I do. It has Distrobox, homebrew and a few more things.

    Here is an archived site

    Use kinoite-main:latest and you will even get automatic version upgrades without a problem.

    You can still rebase, you know? I tried Aurora and it was not for me, back on normal Kinoite.

    But for sure it is a bit annoying to layer. But no issue. I layer 20 packages or so, 300 with dependencies, and all is fine.

    I dont know about ROCM, their hardware enablement to my knowledge is just about NVIDIA, Asus and other proprietary stuff.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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        11 months ago

        Interesting.

        Give it a shot, Aurora is fine. May have some packages you dont need, but it is fine.

        They remove Firefox for whatever reason, which makes no sense. The Librewolf and Firefox Flatpaks are probably okay, the Librewolf RPM is completely broken

        • quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org
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          11 months ago

          We remove Firefox because having it on the image is a security hazard. You want your browser to update more often than your operating system.

          We prefer the flatpak, but if for some reason you need the RPM I would suggest installing it with distrobox.