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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Fair cop on the inconveniences, although I’ve found it fine after an adaption phase, coming from fedora it was lesser than hopping to a new distro. Hard agree on knowing the nuances being problematic, clarity and accessible education is sorely missing, certainly the steepest part of the learning curve.

    I just run ‘distrobox upgrade -all’ in my Daily.service, didn’t need quadlets (although after adaption I quite like them for containers now).


  • Why would I use a system that isn’t supposed to change if I want to change it?

    There’s a bunch of benefits, atomic updates, intrinsic rollback, security of immutability, safe automatic updating and it goes on. Some things are not quite ready yet, e.g. things like sddm which should probably install themes to /etc (which they’re working on), so as often happens in linux, workarounds ensue. Making one directory mutable does not destroy all the benefits.


  • Yeah, I had that at the beginning, then added to my fstab

    #enable sddm and therefore good themes
    /var/sddm /usr/share/sddm none rbind 0 0
    
    

    and KDE themes with sddm components install fine now (most themes install fine into /home, does Gnome really not have per user themes?)

    Essentially you can tactically make things mutable as needed, use sparingly, but maybe not even trying lessens your opinion, no?








  • Also note that Thinkpads up to a couple of years ago (when soldering RAM became a thing) are mostly trivial to open and upgrade RAM / drives, so you don’t have to care about those and can pick up a bargain (look to T480 at the moment (not the TN screen tho), or whatever is 3 years or so old, as that’s the corporate fleets that are getting dumped onto the market).