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Post #3457554
2026-06-28 23:42 UTC
it lacks some cons of Atomic desktops
What would those cons be 😜? Btw, I’m fully aware of the arguments laid down by those averse to the idea of atomic distros. I’m mostly interested in the influence they have on a newer user. So, please, just reveal what you had in mind without searching up the cons 😉.
But some people in this thread are downvoting me for this. It feels like if I were hated for trying to delete Edge from Windows.
The KDE Plasma circlejerk is real 🤣.
I’m more focused on resource usage reasonability, efficiency and control.
And my aspiration to decide and control what happens in my PC
One day I’ll just come up with using DIY distros like Arch and Gentoo and building custom kernels, so I’ll be responsible for any kind of bloat there.
Or perhaps NixOS. It allows for congruent system management rather trivially. Add to that the impermanence module, and the amount of control you’ll have on your machine is simply unmatched.
It comes at a cost, though. NixOS is the most complex distro out of the reasonably popular ones^[Technically, Gentoo is also on that chart. And if it wasn’t clear already, NixOS is more complex than Gentoo.]. But, honestly, it isn’t that bad. If you’ve got experience with programming, you can dive right in (within a VM). And otherwise, after you’ve become comfortable with Arch or Gentoo, then NixOS becomes a logical step-up.
But the day hasn’t come yet, I’m still new to Linux.
Welcome 😊! I await to see what you’ll bring to the table 😜.
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Atomic desktops enforce immutability, the core system is literally a ROM almost like stock Android. It’s not always bad, I can easily imagine cases when it is perfect, but it’s not what I’m currently seeking from Linux. As far as I could figure out, secureblue imposes slightly less restrictions.
Yeah well I knew about Arch circlejerk, but these KDE guys are something. I would probably get same reaction asking an Arch community about how to purge pacman.
NixOS is worth testing indeed. However, AFAIK it is not lightweight enough for my setup. Pretty same as Gentoo, I guess. It is kind of ironical that the most controllable and efficiency-oriented distros aren’t actually good for mediocre setups (but well, I believe nothing stops from building a system on Gentoo with a powerful setup but with flags targeting a low-end device and then flashing the result to the latter). Unfortunately I have no experience with programming, so my learning curve will be fairly steep. But once I’ll just have the required skill level even for managing NixOS. And probably I will even learn programming, who knows.
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