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chroot

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

What is your opinion on atomic distributions? Fedora Silverblue, Bluefin, Bazzite?

The "automic" may be a good idea for business servers. It cuts the dowm time in case something went wrong. For home users, it's probably an overkill. A manual roll back or have timeshift running in the system can get the job done.

DeepDayze

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

What is your opinion on atomic distributions? Fedora Silverblue, Bluefin, Bazzite?

Bazzite is mainly geared for gamers but these immutable OS'es are overkill for most users and best use case are for enterprise users where a base image can be created and updates are merely overlaid on top of it.

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Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Does Canada need its own distro? This looks interesting anyway;

https://maplelinux.ca/

Rainy day here so I downloaded it and gave it a spin (live session only) on a virtual machine (Qemu).

Tidy looks. Uses Cinnamon. A bunch of games are included. Other than that 'the usual suspects': Libreoffice, Thunderbird, media player, gimp... Chromium seems to be the default browser. When I test it using https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ it performs poorly despite the claims of respecting privacy on MapleLinux' web.

At first I only allocated 2 GB of RAM to the virtual machine. That was too little for smooth operation. With 4 GB I was fine.

Just for fun I moved over to Pop!OS using the same Qemu settings. It is a different experience in a fun way. Their Cosmic desktop is not just a re-skinned something as far as I can judge. Its RAM footprint is slightly smaller than that of Maple's Cinnamon.

/Martin

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Thanks for replying Martin. It doesn't look like Maple is very strong on privacy despite their making a point of it on their website.

I agree that Pop!OS looks good - I may give it another go soon.

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