Post #1750944

2025-12-25 10:20 UTC

I truly believe immutable Fedora distros are the answer to windows. I spent years and years on Debian based distros. At the beginning of 2025 I finally switched my daily driver from Windows to an arch based distro. Fast forward to October where I finally put Bazzite on my S/O's gaming laptop, and shit just works. But the real kicker is that I don't have to worry if upgrading her system will leave it unbootable. Look, I love tinkering, compiling from source, and keeping a spare Linux kernel, but windows users don't want that shit. They yern for flat packs and systems that you can't fuck up. Anyways, fedora atomic, 100% the new meta.

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@JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 17:36

I really agree. I let my partner try out my steam deck (immutable arch instead of Fedora, but ultimately the same experience. Flatpaks and easy updates). They fell in love with it, so I bought a second one for them. It’s been a year now, running it almost exclusively on desktop mode and using it as a Linux desktop. I haven't even shown them the terminal yet.

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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 14:37

100 fucking percent. I'm loving atomic distros more and more as I use them, despite having to work around limitations/recommendations against installing rpm packaged software. Bazzite was actually the distro I chose when I bailed on windows earlier this year, and while I do have my complaints, it's easily been the best desktop Linux experience I've had in multiple decades. I've tried a dozen or more times to go to Linux but my graphics card has always been the reason I went back. But between going green and using a distro that has both steam and my GPU drivers baked in, it's been a fucking dream. Like, I love tinkering, coding, and all that fun tech shit. But I also do this for a living, so I want my home system as set and forget as possible. I don't mind doing troubleshooting on my servers and shit to make hosted services work, but something about having to troubleshoot my main rig just sends me over the edge.

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@StitchInTime@piefed.social 2025-12-25 15:25

Yep. Atomic doesn’t suit my needs outside of a dedicated gaming machine, but if I help my mom with a new computer, it’s going to have an atomic desktop with KDE. Close enough to windows that she won’t need to learn something new, secure where I won’t have to clean it out every 6 months, and reliable to where she can handle OS updates herself. I just need to be able to run an old version of WordPerfect for her in Wine and she has everything she needs.

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