Post #3938463
2026-07-19 17:02 UTC
The real problem is config drift. You have to maintain a lot of little fixes over time as you operate Linux. I’ve run fedora atomic (and rebased to bazzite when it got fairly big) since it launched with only one relatively minor hiccup that was resolved by a single line in terminal (rpm-ostree rebase). You can layer stuff over it to modify the base image and clear it if something breaks, manually removing critical packages and being sure to clear every file would be a nightmare on any other distro.
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@excel@lemming.megumin.org 2026-07-20 22:24
It’s a little more effort to maintain compared to something like nix, but Arch (including CachyOS) doesn’t have the same config drift problem as distros like Debian, because it has pacdiff to let you consolidate any updated defaults with your own settings.