Fríggin' finally. This distro is the one to watch, because unlike Silverblue or any other immutable OS, Vanilla doesn't build it's system image using some esoteric homebrewed standards. It uses OCI images to boot an immutable system.
Add distrobox into the mix and suddenly you've separated the system from the user environment. That way user applications and system applications never need to touch, like at all.
Additionally if you can get one OCI image running on a bare metal system like a laptop or workstation, you could probably do it with others as well, meaning that as long as the system itself contained the tooling to rebase images, you could "distrohop" without having to delete any partitions or reinstall in any way.
You might need a process for that specifically, but it it possible - and being able to hotswap Linux distros, whereby going back is a reboot and selecting the previous image? Yes please.
There are several more immutable systems, like the afformentioned Silverblue (rpm-ostree), MicroOS (transactional-update) and NixOS (the programming language and environment that can spit out a system known as "nix".. which is what I'm using now). But it's all very developer-centric - even if that is not the intention.
Vanilla is a desktop-oriented distribution, pure and true. The developers and community want an easy, safe experience for all which is what an immutable system can help with and will open a massive world to newcomers who don't care what a distribution is, because they can use any distribution they want - from a single command... but also, in the future, a GUI!
So massive, massive shout out to the Vanilla devs and community. When it's released as beta stable I might consider returning, but.. nix... well.. the power is just immense. Mmmmm. MMMMM!
It's like them saying "listen, we love authoritarian governance. Wanna have some of this TikTok bussy?" And then flaunts it's ass while winking and throwing kisses. Republicans be all sweaty, losening their ties, licking their lips...
This is why we need piracy/open source scenes. I'm sure the Nouveau people wouldn't encur a copyright strike if say someone forked their driver and implemented it outside of the Nouveau dev team to then publish it somewhere it won't get taken down.
I think we need illegal source code because of how the right of ownership has been steadily dismantled by industries at large and set as an industrial precedent in hardware.
Oh you misunderstand. When they say "family" they mean "income source generators". They want more children, not to keep the trajectory of population at a stable level, but to get more poor people to end up in debt traps that they can then milk. More neglected, confused, uneducated, economically irresponsible people? Yes please!
IMHO NixOS, which is what I'm using (full disclosure), is heavily underrated. His subposition was based on an hour of use "a long time ago", which leads me to believe he doesn't fully grasp the versatility of NixOS - or rather the "nix package manager", which is more of a scriptable deployment tool.
What I can do with a dotfile and a single command equates to many more steps in any other given distros. I can recreate a system simply by running said dotfiles on another install, or indeed convert it to a VM image if I wanted to.
So it's like if you took ansible, the aur and added the ability to configure everything from services, packages, filesystems, modules, virtualization, kernel's, users, from a JSON-like dotfile consisting of booleans, arrays, strings and even functions.
It is however overtly complex, there's a disconnect between old nix ("stable") and new nix (flakes, "unstable", experimental but mainstream in the NixOS community) and the documentation needs work, which is what has been funded and is being worked on now.
Thought I'd just chime in, because this guy's take seems glib, uninformed and dismissive...
...though I agree in regards to elementary and solus though.
...what's with all the Frasier hate in this thread? Let's give it a fair run. If it's not your cup of tea, it's not your cup of tea. But, if it is shite, it is shite. Judge it upon its merits or just ignore it.
Also; no Niles? Wtf... and no returning characters at all? Lame. But let's see where this goes.
As in Ubisoft Will use Azure infrastructure to stream games... I don't think Amazon has that kind of infrastructure. Microsoft however even considered letting Sony set up game streaming on Azure.
Honestly, in a weird way, it makes sense. I don't view neither Ubisoft nor Sony as software companies. Ubisoft makes and publishes games, Sony makes consoles, phones and cameras.
So outsourcing to a company who's job it is to solely focus on backend infrastructure and protocols so that Ubisoft and Sony can focus on doing what they do best.
In any case, I fundamentally oppose game streaming because I want to hold a copy of the software which is licensed to me. Not some streaming service where a game can just suddenly disappear. I don't appreciate these companies retconning products nowadays and it'll get worse still.
Streaming will put the decision and power solely on the publisher. That is scary to me.
Russia only wants peace talks with concessions for giving up the Donbas and keeping Crimea. They are holding out for such an opportunity and honestly I just hope they lose Crimea.
Fríggin' finally. This distro is the one to watch, because unlike Silverblue or any other immutable OS, Vanilla doesn't build it's system image using some esoteric homebrewed standards. It uses OCI images to boot an immutable system.
Add
distroboxinto the mix and suddenly you've separated the system from the user environment. That way user applications and system applications never need to touch, like at all.Additionally if you can get one OCI image running on a bare metal system like a laptop or workstation, you could probably do it with others as well, meaning that as long as the system itself contained the tooling to rebase images, you could "distrohop" without having to delete any partitions or reinstall in any way.
You might need a process for that specifically, but it it possible - and being able to hotswap Linux distros, whereby going back is a reboot and selecting the previous image? Yes please.
There are several more immutable systems, like the afformentioned Silverblue (rpm-ostree), MicroOS (transactional-update) and NixOS (the programming language and environment that can spit out a system known as "nix".. which is what I'm using now). But it's all very developer-centric - even if that is not the intention.
Vanilla is a desktop-oriented distribution, pure and true. The developers and community want an easy, safe experience for all which is what an immutable system can help with and will open a massive world to newcomers who don't care what a distribution is, because they can use any distribution they want - from a single command... but also, in the future, a GUI!
So massive, massive shout out to the Vanilla devs and community. When it's released as beta stable I might consider returning, but.. nix... well.. the power is just immense. Mmmmm. MMMMM!