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The use case is that it's fucking cool :) More seriously: if you're writing software for Linux, this sort of thing could be a boon for packaging that software.

The use case is that it's fucking cool :) More seriously: if you're writing software for Linux, this sort of thing could be a boon for packaging that software. > The immutable filesystem seems interesting, but I'm still not sure what the advantage to it is. How would you install software on a read only system? Usually it's just the root FS that's read-only; /home is usually still r/w, so applications would get installed there (or into some other FS that's r/w and not root). This approach ain't terribly new - openSUSE's MicroOS and Valve's SteamOS 3.0 are both good instances of prior art, and I'm pretty sure Android and ChromeOS work similarly - but it's cool to see this idea continue to catch on.

7speter 4y ago
Maybe I’m wrong, but I kind of think that if Linux wants widespread adaption, there gas to be a one stop solution for users, instead of a distro thats ideal for ML, a distro ideal for video editing (looking at you davinci resolve), a distro for audio editing, a distro for streaming and a distro for gaming (surprisingly all distros). Maybe that involves a kernel implementation that can handle all of that (seemingly easier said than done) or a convergent distro, or flatpaks, or scripts that seeks updates im the source code…
- yellowapple 4y ago
  At this point I'm kind of leaning toward the opposite: if it was easy to install a bunch of tiny distros alongside each other that each do one thing and do it well, I'd be down to switch over to that. Being able to fire up a dedicated "mode" for programming v. music composition/production v. general leisure (and being able to quickly switch modes without losing state) would be awesome both from an "I want to make sure the software I need runs in as optimal an environment as possible" standpoint and an "I want to be explicitly in a programming/music/leisure headspace right now and don't want distractions" standpoint. Distrobox is on my to-do list to try out and see if I can hack something together to scratch that itch. This BlendOS might be another option.
  - clericbob 4y ago
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7speter 4y ago

Maybe I’m wrong, but I kind of think that if Linux wants widespread adaption, there gas to be a one stop solution for users, instead of a distro thats ideal for ML, a distro ideal for video editing (looking at you davinci resolve), a distro for audio editing, a distro for streaming and a distro for gaming (surprisingly all distros). Maybe that involves a kernel implementation that can handle all of that (seemingly easier said than done) or a convergent distro, or flatpaks, or scripts that seeks updates im the source code…

yellowapple 4y ago
At this point I'm kind of leaning toward the opposite: if it was easy to install a bunch of tiny distros alongside each other that each do one thing and do it well, I'd be down to switch over to that. Being able to fire up a dedicated "mode" for programming v. music composition/production v. general leisure (and being able to quickly switch modes without losing state) would be awesome both from an "I want to make sure the software I need runs in as optimal an environment as possible" standpoint and an "I want to be explicitly in a programming/music/leisure headspace right now and don't want distractions" standpoint. Distrobox is on my to-do list to try out and see if I can hack something together to scratch that itch. This BlendOS might be another option.
- clericbob 4y ago
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