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although i prefer the arch distros for bleeding edge and rolling updates. Bazzite makes sense for testing because of the immutable.
A lot of more experienced pc users might end up liking arch distros later in their life, but I would never recomnmend arch based distros to people who aren't comfortable with linux yet.
Experienced here, did my time in Arch, learned a lot, perhaps even more than necessary, now retired to Fedora, then Bazzite and Aurora-dev. It just gets out of my way nicely. Something, something, Bell curve meme, plateau of enlightenment meme.
And I would absolutely recommend Arch to a technically competent gamer newcomer as the fastest way to get up to speed.
Horses, Courses.
Bazzite was my first attempt at really daily driving Linux. I ended up on Aurora dev and I don't have any reasons to move to something different.
The U-Blue OSs really feel like the future to me.
Incredibly cool tech, but it just works.
I daily drive Aurora on my work laptop on an external usb c m2 nvme ssd via a caddy. I love it.
Are you using devpods? It's always been buggy for me.
Yup, you can just do your Arch (or other distro-hopping) stuff in a distrobox if you want. Break it, blow it away and start fresh, uBlue don't care... Switch DEs, that's a one liner (although Gnome and KDE still don't play well together, so use a fresh user). What's not to love?
I (want to) like Ublue distros but for some reason i can't get drag and drop in flatpak firefox and Thunderbird to work, how do you deal with this, if you don't mind the stupid question :D
As in between them ? Not something I do enough to care about, and I use Zen and Betterbird, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, but I just selected something from Zen and dropped it into a new message in Betterbird without issue...KDE FWIW. There are still some rough edges with flatpak and wayland, but they're mostly smoothed now. It's usually permissions (KeepassXC and firefox is a bitch for example, but doable).
No i meant like uploading files somewhere or attaching stuff to Mails, when i have the folder already open.
Couldn't yet find a really satisfying solution to that
Attaching files from Dolphin to mail just works as Drag and Drop (gives you the choice of inline or attachment for images, cool, did not know that). Not sure for firefox, would need a target, but there's always right click, copy location, paste into any file chooser.
Bluefin-dx user here. This is the way.
NixOS is bleeding edge immutable, but it's like deep in the weeds
NixOS would be ideal for a purely testing, if I were setting a test bench I would definitely use Nix. BUT they also need to use something that people watching might be willing/able to use, and Nix has a very steep learning curve.
If I understand correctly, it's a different kind of "immutable", since distros like Bazzite provide premade immutable images you use and anything else you need you install using alternative means, whereas NixOS is an immutable image generator that requires you to set up your own definitions for the image, but also lets you install software by adding it to that image.
You don't necessarily need to make your own NixOS flakes, you can use ones maintained by others
It's great for homeservers
They're both "immutable" in the sense that they're setting up either read-only Filesystem Hierarchies (as in bazzite, which uses ostree) or Symlinking their entire filesystem hierarchy to a read-only "store" (as in nixos).
Bazzite uses something called ostree to "diff" the filesystem hierarchy much like git does, while Nix basically makes giant read-only store of files and hashes them, then weaves them all together into a "view" of a filesystem that gets symlinked into the context of a running program.