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KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap (linuxiac.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wondering why this isn't built on opensuse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Opensuse doesn't have rpm-ostree. Their immutable offerings are just snapper/btrfs snapshots before changes to the system.

Such a setup is nowhere near as powerful. rpm-ostree can rebase itself based off of a container/oci image. It can layer images on top of eachother. Rather than just tracking when changes happened, it can also track what change happened, in a git style setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Ok, so rpm-ostree was the reason. Was not aware suse Lacks this...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would it? OpenSUSE isn't a good choice for a base system it is fairly obscure and the base is rather large.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They have been a supporter / promoter of KDE for a long time, would seem logical to me that KDE would go with suse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

Suse isn't well suited for a minimal base system. You would want something like Arch or Debian and in this case they went with Arch.