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Atomic and declarative. Which is way cooler.
If we’re asking what people mean when they use those descriptors, then you’re correct.
However, literally speaking, in this context, immutable only means read-only, and atomic only means that updates are applied all-at-once or not at all (no weird in-between state if your update crashes halfway through).
The rest of the features (rollbacks, containerization, and immutable meaning full system image updates) are typically implied, but not explicitly part of the definition.
28·3 months agoI’ve noticed that almost everyone has missed the most “cloud-native” aspect of the Universal Blue project: The build process.
What’s really cool about this is that the images are built in a “cloud-native” way. Right now, they’re just using Github’s actions pipeline to push images. This does a couple of very cool things.
First: It means that any image that gets sent to your device was already built on a system and checked as OK. It’s still technically possible that a bad image could get pushed, but the likelihood is extremely low because they are tested as a single cohesive unit before being sent to anyone else’s device.
With traditional distros packages are built on a system and tested, but they’re not necessarily tested in a single common environment that is significantly similar between everyone’s device. This largely deals with dependency hell, and weirder configurations that cause hard-to-diagnose problems.
Second: It also simplifies the build process for the Universal Blue team because they are able to take the existing cloud native images from fedora and just apply some simple patches on top of that. While doing this in a traditional distro way as I understand it would be far more complicated. This is why Universal Blue was able to update their images to Fedora 41 like… 24 hours after release? It was crazy fast.
The creator of Universal Blue is also on the fediverse! I don’t know if this will actually ping them, but it’s worth a try.
https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2345#issuecomment-1733132198
To me it looks like the devs of Bottles said that they’d be patching Bottles to remove support links in non-flatpak versions.
So… isn’t what openSUSE did in the spirit of that? Obviously, them packaging it at all is against the devs’ wishes, but… I dunno, this whole thing is a mess.
Edit: I may have confused “support links” with the “donate button”. However, I am still confused, and this situation is a mess. I sympathize with the bottles devs, because it’s good software, and they are largely volunteer developers. Beyond that? *exaggerated shrug*
Using fish (shell, not emulator) gets you some of that.
3·10 months agoYes! This is something I do on 3 of my machines. My ArchLinux Distrobox with paru works like a charm. (so far)
Very cool. Had I not just installed (ublue) Kinoite, I’d probably be trying this today. I’m a chronic distrohopper, and this looks very cool.
I do this using an Arch distrobox on my openSUSE Kalpa machine whenever I need anything that isn’t flatpak’d or available through my tumbleweed distrobox.
What you said about YaST, I 100% agree with.
I distro hopped a lot.
Mained Manjaro for a while… but now that I’ve found OpenSUSE, I’m not going anywhere. The convenience and polish YaST has is unbelievable.
Tumbleweed has been on my main machine for 3 years now? I also have OpenSUSE “Kalpa” installed on my TV box, and Leap on a laptop.
I dabble in NixOS, but Tumbleweed is my true love.
Very cool!
If anyone is intrigued by terminal calculators, I suggest you check out qalculate.
Alt-right playbook is, and always will be incredible
I really like antennapod. It works really well for all of my podcasts.
Agreed. Except the part about 4:3 video. That’s just upsetting to think about. “Widescreen” (anywhere from 16:9 to the 1.85:1 often used in movies) is acceptable, 4:3 is far too cramped for a pleasant viewing experience.
If you’re watching on anything other than certain laptop screens, you’re likely to have pillarboxing which is just wasted space that could be beautiful landscapes, helpful information, or artistic framing.
Truly a person of refined taste.
I believe it’s a chameleon.