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Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.

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[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Immutables are an amazing idea. I just wish Arch (EndeavourOS) had it.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't SteamOS immutable and Arch based? Surely there's also a more general purpose distribution that does that.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. Now, I have a couple of options to look at. Thank you.

[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There is AstOS although I haven't tried it personally and I'm not sure how well it works.

[–] Autoreiv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is AstOS still active? I found this AshOS which is similar but I had never tried any of it. Maybe also inactive don't really know. Thx for mentioning AstOS, I never thought this is possible on Arch distribution.

[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No idea! AshOS looks pretty cool too. It would be interesting to have a bigger arch based distro pick up something like this. Other than SteamOS I guess.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh nice. I'm going to look into it more. I have invested so much damn time into my current setup and I don't want to just migrate. So many apps and games are set up the way I want them. Not a distro-hopper here and you get the picture.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please temove the exclamation mark from before your link, you're linking it as an image.

[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I was wondering why it wasn't showing up... I guess Boost isn't linking things properly. Thanks for the heads up.