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The future of desktop Linux might be like OpenSUSE Kalpa/Aeon (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been running Tumbleweed for a few years now. It's great, but it's not 100% autopilot, updates often require manual intervention (resolving small problems) or updates try to add 50 packages I don't need (recommends) all the time despite them not being in a pattern. I've been looking for a distro on which I could set up automatic updates and forget mostly about it, while still having recent packages; reliability and peace of mind while being on the bleeding edge. Due to having an NVIDIA GPU, LTS distros are a no-go. I've debated on the following

Debian: packages too old, ideal for my server though.
Ubuntu 24.04: Plasma 6 not available until next release. Snap is still a problem.
Fedora/Ublue: DNF is painfully slow. Immutable variants are interesting but download full GBs worth of images
Arch: insanely fast package manager, but can require manual intervention. Automatic updates aren't recommended for arch. It also lacks my printer driver on the repos (only available on the AUR). One of the only distros that can truly satisfy my minimalist itch.
KDE Neon: Snaps, no nvidia graphics
NixOS: Never tried it but apparently the unusual file structure causes many problems

So I ended up trying again OpenSUSE Kalpa. I had completely forgotten about it, and I really like the concept. It's like the Fedora immutable variants, but instead of downloading whole GBs of images, it creates BTRFS snapshots between normal zypper updates. So you can have the benefits of offline updates without having to wait at boot or at shutdown. Just like silverblue, the concept is to try to install everything through flatpak/distrobox and avoid adding anything unnecessary to the base, so that system updates can be snappy and unproblematic.

I was really tired of opening my laptop, updating everything and then rebooting. I just want to open my pc, have all updates automatically applied in the background through systemd units so that the next time I boot, I have an updated system. No "updating" during next boot. I finally found a distro perfect for me in that regard, and for everyone else who's tired of babysitting their linux desktops, you should give a shot to Kalpa/Aeon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am speaking of day to day use of a computer.

In your case it matters. it always matters if it's the main task. even in your case you do the comparison once. And a task that is performed once, shouldn't be the main focus. I wouldn't use atomic for tinkering with the system.

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

I also disagree with some Fedora devs that "development should be done in containers". This works well for apps, but results in duplication and does not allow editing the OS itself.