I already learnt of blendOS two weeks ago, I think in a discussion of immutable distros.
Really looking forward to play around with it some more and maybe replace my Arch install with this.
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Is there a "light" version, without a WM? I run Hyprland on my current Arch setup.
Indeed, you can just write your own custom /system.yaml file with the hyprland package (or no WM/DE for that matter). This guide describes how you can do that: https://blendos.co/install/post-install/intro/ (use the 'custom' track and add 'hyprland' to the package list)
(disclaimer: blendOS dev here)
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Set 'blendos-base' in your system.yaml, install additional packages, update and reboot.
This looks very tempting!
A very dumb question probably, but I'm new to using Linux so I lack a lot of understanding: I'm on Bazzite atm. Would there be a simple way to switch to blend OS without wiping everything? Like a rebase? Probably not but I figured it's worth a shot to ask xD
Ooh, not just yet (in essence, it’d be hard to migrate over from the system used in Fedora Atomic to that used by blendOS) :( We’re working on a migration script for users from regular ole’ Arch Linux, though.
(disclaimer: blendOS dev here)
Ah well, not the first time I changed distro xD I'll make some space on my drive and test it
No such thing, we all start somewhere! :)
Anyway, you could in fact do that if you were thinking of trying out other Fedora Atomic images such as Silverblue and whatnot (see also the ublue page listing tons of others, including your bazzite!). This uses different tooling, so unfortunately not in this case.
Yes, but only if you have separate partitions for root, home, boot and swap. Otherwise, it is going to be painful.
Yeah I don't as in the bazzite installer it's a real pain to set it up manually (also not allowing you to spread the partitions over multiple drives during the initial setup)
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Interesting. Do they point to arch repos or provide their own like Manjaro? I haven't thought about a rolling release atomic distro before.
Just the Arch repos with an additional repository (similar to EndeavourOS), so AUR packages do work as intended and are in fact officially supported.
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Sweet, been waiting for this one. I wonder how it will compare to NixOS or Kinoite.
*Fedora Atomic
Its a huge bundle of tons of variants, likely 40 or so, if you take everything that uBlue, wayblue and secureblue produce
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