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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why use immutable Linux ? And which one ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I'll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty much immutable across the board on all of my servers and workstations (laptop included). Most my servers are openSUSE Leap Micro and MicroOS. Run MicroOS on the desktop side as well.

Honestly ....haven't had any issues and the maintenance of it is fairly hands off. Few of mine are k8s nodes so that combined with the reboot mgr + transactional-update has been awesome. I spend less time maintaining my homelabs / desktops and eases my focus in just getting work done.

I've only had to roll back a couple of times (mainly self-inflicted), so it's nice having that capability. A lot of this though can be accomplished in a non-immutable world as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

A note on "MicroOS on the desktop": The Gnome variant is called OpenSUSE Aeon and the KDE variant OpenSUSE Kalpa. MicroOS branding is used only for server use due the confusing names. Quoting from https://news.opensuse.org/2023/05/31/microos-desktop-has-new-name/

Simply put? The microOS product namespace is getting crowded. And this is leading to a certain amount of confusion, and causing some support issues. At present, amongst the microOS “family” offered are: Server Products openSUSE MicroOS openSUSE Leap Micro SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro Desktop Products openSUSE MicroOS Desktop GNOME openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Plasma And I think we can all agree, when somebody joins a support forum of some sort, be it Matrix/Telegram/forums/IRC/etc, and says “I’m running microOS and I have a problem” then the inevitable question of “Which MicroOS?” has to be asked. And by their very nature, the Desktop offerings are quite different beasts, than the server offerings, and have quite different support needs. And typing out “openSUSE MicroOS Desktop GNOME” is just too darn long, every time you want to tell somebody what’s running on your machine.