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The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming
(hackaday.com)
"Distroless"
looks inside
Distro
Remember Serverless? Servers all the way down.
INTERMEDIARY BUILD LAYERS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
DAYS OF REBASING yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for building on anything above fedora:atomic
Wanted to base your image on someone elses anyway to save some work? We had a tool for that, it was called "FORKING"
"Distroless is built on GNOME OS" "error: /Tree contains both /etc and /usr/etc" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged.
LOOK at what Devs have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the servers and window managers we built for them (These are REAL distros, done by REAL devs)
https://github.com/ublue-os/akmods/commit/70af39999c681566bd1c66f23834daa37b996aaa
https://github.com/ublue-os/main/pull/771
"Hello I would like 1.8 pixels please"
They have played us for absolute fools.
Wouldn't "distroless" just mean LFS?
I mean, if they're packaging an OS for distribution, what makes that distroless?
What the heck is this please? The GitHub link contains nothing about "distroless".
Followed the link. Two blurbs that are plenty to turn me off it:
Homebrew on-tap by default, same tools as your Mac
No thanks. I don't need anything from Mac. I actually hate using Mac including the headaches that homebrew brings. I only use it for work and only because I hate it less than windows and Linux isn't a choice.
For professionals and AI/ML engineers
So it's catering to AI. No thanks.
Come back in another decade when things like Flatpak are actually usable without giving up a bunch of features or having to change settings or do workarounds to get everything working.
I think is very dependent on the apps you install because i haven't need to do really any workarounds and i install all my apps through Flatpak. The only messing around with permissions i do is disabling everything that i dont need (like printer or smartcard access). I also have over a hundred apps installed.
It’s still not possible to make Discord work correctly in Flatpak
What features? Discord was working perfect for me on a custom client (Vesktop) but is broken now because they hate me using a VPN.
Ok. I guess I never noticed because I actively don't like any of those features and I definitely don't want Discord to have unrestricted filesystem access. The file picker in Vesktop works for me without giving full access.
built on GNOME OS
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
This community is funny.
From what I can tell this is is basically the spiritual evolution of Bazzite, by the same team and built with a similar approach. Yet look at how differently they are received.
Brand identity memes are truly impactful these days. Names and presentation seem to drive majority sentiment.
Wouldn't this be too barebones?
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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