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I have been working on a similar idea (well ok the concept of an immutable desktop - the tech is completely different) - https://github.com/mikadosoftware/work

I have been working on a similar idea (well ok the concept of an immutable desktop - the tech is completely different) - https://github.com/mikadosoftware/workstation/tree/master/bin https://github.com/mikadosoftware/workstation/tree/master/bi... The article is completely right about this being the future of user OS's - even my half-broke me-ware above has changed how I think about using my laptop - just knowing exactly what is under me is exactly what I have set is ... reassuring. Being able to know I can try things out and a reboot gets me back to my last known good point is ... well a bit like a video game with savepoints. And there becomes an utter focus on data and non-data. And probably the best advantage is that you ratchet up - every security improvement I think of becomes built in and makes my platform one tiny bit higher SilverBlue is well worth watching - I say they really are into something

ramblerman 7y ago
Thanks for summarizing the crucial piece, that this is about an Immutable OS. You have to scroll 2 full pages before the Silverblue news release actually gets to that.
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michaelmrose 7y ago
Have you looked at nixos or guix?
pknopf 7y ago
> Being able to know I can try things out and a reboot gets me back to my last known good point is This is exactly with I do with Darch. https://godarch.com/ https://godarch.com/ It supports Ubuntu/Debian/Arch/VoidLinux. Here are my recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes I push my images to Docker Hub, pull them on each of my machines and boot them bare-metal. The same exact bits.
- lifeisstillgood 7y ago
  So what is it doing under the hood? The layers themselves seem to be bash scripts so presumably have RUN xxx put in front of them? The booting from bare metal is cool - never tried that. presumably that won't work on a mac?

ramblerman 7y ago

Thanks for summarizing the crucial piece, that this is about an Immutable OS. You have to scroll 2 full pages before the Silverblue news release actually gets to that.

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michaelmrose 7y ago

Have you looked at nixos or guix?

pknopf 7y ago

> Being able to know I can try things out and a reboot gets me back to my last known good point is This is exactly with I do with Darch. https://godarch.com/ https://godarch.com/ It supports Ubuntu/Debian/Arch/VoidLinux. Here are my recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes I push my images to Docker Hub, pull them on each of my machines and boot them bare-metal. The same exact bits.

lifeisstillgood 7y ago
So what is it doing under the hood? The layers themselves seem to be bash scripts so presumably have RUN xxx put in front of them? The booting from bare metal is cool - never tried that. presumably that won't work on a mac?