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  • BlackEcotoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldSim racing and bazzite
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    16 days ago

    I haven’t used an immutable distro, but if it’s a problem, I’m sure that there’s a way to defeat the immutability. If it just mounts the root filesystem read-only, then

    # mount -o remount,rw /
    

    Will probably do it.

    It will work until the next reboot (and I believe it won’t work on Fedora 42 as it now uses composefs), on Fedora Atomic Desktops you have to use layers to add additional packages using rpm-ostree

    (Edit: formatting)




  • Power off. I never used hibernation nor suspend (even on Windows) and as I don’t use some of my computers for weeks, it just doesn’t make sense to keep them suspended for so long. And now that I’m on Fedora Atomic Desktop with auto-updates, I would have to reboot regularly anyway in order to apply updates.

    Only exception is the Steam Deck for which I kept suspend so I can pick up my games where I left off.







  • It’s like regular Fedora KDE, except that it avoids this problem of traces of past experiments everywhere.

    Kinoite is much more than that: it is an atomic and immutable spin of Fedora KDE. This has big implications but the gist of it is that:

    1. You can roll back to any previous version if anything breaks

    2. The base system cannot be modified

    3. If you need to install RPM packages, you do that by adding “layers” on top of the base system, and these can be removed if needed to go back to a clean base system

    4. You can switch from one spin to another by “rebasing”, but it is recommended that you remove any additional layer first and that you stick to the same desktop environment


  • My experience on other distros was that upgrading in place a system that deviated too much from “stock” would wreck the install. I would personally play it safe and backup my home folder and do a fresh install.

    Just don’t forget to test your backup before formatting your drive!