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Need some clarity on atomic blue distros (is.hardlywork.ing)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Dil@is.hardlywork.ing to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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How does rebasing work? If Universal Blue were to shutdown and Bazzite/Bluefin/Aurora were to suddenly stop development and updates, could I rebase to any other atomic distro without losing my files/apps and continue to get updates there? Using the same DE (since I heard there are some issues, fixable, but annoying)
Or is it just a way to swap to a new distro while still being able to swap back to a backup of your old one if you need to?

(It doesn't matter if them shutting down is illogical, being able to move provides a sense of security.)

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You could absolutely rebase to Silverblue or Kinoite. Rebasing swaps out the core system files (basically, all the immutable stuff) and leaves /etc and /var untouched. So your home directory and other configs won't change.

However, Universal Blue is not likely to shut down, since there's many maintainers, and they have directions on how to create your own downstream distro, if you want. On top of that, BlueBuild has their own set of tools to roll your own distro downstream from the base Fedora Atomics.

So no matter what, the likelihood that you'll be stranded is almost zero.

ETA: let me know if you want more details.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats prettt much all of what I needed to know, I see why they're reccomended.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, it works amazingly well, too. I've been rebasing between Bazzite and Kinoite a number of times in the last months (because Bazzite had some problems recognizing my drawing tablet which has been fixed now) without issue.