Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic: blendOS v4 released

rs2009@infosec.pub · 18 days ago

cerement · 16 days ago

repeat the “Don’t sweat it.”
Ubuntu is a perfectly fine starting point (the other “beginner distro” that’s commonly recommended is LinuxMint)
»AFTER« you become comfortable with what you have:
- try familiarizing yourself with the command line
  - far more competent than Windows cmd.exe or PowerShell
  - !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev
- get overwhelmed with all the distro choices available
  - get bitten by the distro-hopping bug (“Gotta try them all!”)
    - and then try Distrobox (“ALL the distros at once!”)
»THEN« take a look at immutable distros
- “immutable distro” is a catch-all term that embraces several concepts
  - immutable – the root filesystem is set to read-only – makes it harder to mess up your system
  - declarative – your hardware and packages and configs are declared in a master configuration file
  - atomic / transactional – updates are checked as they’re applied, if it fails, it gets rolled back to a previous “safe state”
  - container / sandbox – ex. Flatpak or Docker or OCI – apps are isolated in their own sandbox and not allowed to mess up anything else