Post #3461896

2026-06-29 03:07 UTC

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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@EchoDelta_9@programming.dev 2026-06-29 08:10

Atomic desktops enforce immutability, the core system is literally a ROM almost like stock Android. Thank you for quenching my curiosity! The analogy to Android makes me worry that you might be associating stuff with atomic distros that are not (inherently) tied to them. Which, to be fair, happens a LOT, unfortunately… secureblue imposes slightly less restrictions. In short, as secureblue is ultimately derived from Fedora Atomic, it follows (most of) its conventions. Though, it’s most similar to uBlue in particular due to relying on their images initially. As such, all methods of installing software on say Bazzite apply to secureblue as well. Note, however, that secureblue prefers to keep it leaner for the sake of both security and simplicity. Finally, like Fedora Atomic and uBlue, it also allows you to customize the guts of your OS by creating/configuring an image. However, AFAIK it is not lightweight enough for my setup. Pretty same as Gentoo, I guess. If you can run KDE Plasma, then you should be able to run both NixOS and Gentoo. my learning curve will be fairly steep 😅. Honestly, I think it’s exaggerated. But I’m only ankles deep in NixOS…

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