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> Currently both arch and fedora are supported distributions. Does this mean that we can now have an actual immutable Arch-based distro?! I love Silverblue, b
by sph 2y ago
> Currently both arch and fedora are supported distributions.
Does this mean that we can now have an actual immutable Arch-based distro?!
I love Silverblue, best distro ever, but the day I can have immutable Arch Linux I’m outta here! I truly despise rpm and all the fedora machinations required to build a custom package.
- DaanDeMeyer 2y agoYeah I've been running the Arch variant of this on my personal laptop for a while now. Of course no stability guarantees with this for now since you'll be running systemd from source.
- xx_ns 2y agoHow have your experiences with this setup been so far? Any major pain points?
- DaanDeMeyer 2y agoBuilding the next update locally is slow because erofs has to compress the entirety of /usr on my rather old laptop and that takes a while. Aside from that, I'm using flatpak for firefox and for some reason it takes absolutely forever (like > 15s) to start firefox on my machine, still need to look into why that happens. Aside from those it's very usable. But of course it's running systemd from source so I'm not going to actually recommend anyone to run this who is not a systemd maintainer until we iron out the kinks.
- xx_ns 2y agoThanks! The slow startup times have usually been an xdg-desktop-portal issue for me in the past, might be worth looking into.
- vaylian 2y agoHow does the update process work? Do you run pacman -Syu and then bake the result into the next image with mkiso?
- DaanDeMeyer 2y agomkosi runs pacman for you and then packs up the result as a disk image. It also builds a unified kernel image and does a bunch of signing. The new /usr partition and UKI are then installed with systemd-sysupdate.