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Silverblue vs uBlue (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by ozymandias117@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

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[-] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 4 points 4 months ago

I’ve got Silverblue installed on my laptop, could I then rebase to uBlue and get the benefits of using uBlue over Silverblue?

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Yep, you would just run a couple of commands in a terminal which would reset your layered apps and rebase to a ublue build of your choosing:

https://universal-blue.org/

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