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Hey! I’m currently on Fedora Workstation and I’m getting bored. Nothing in particular. I’ve heard about immutable distros and I’m thinking about Fedora Kinoite. The idea is interesting but idk if it’s worth it. CPU and GPU are AMD. Mostly used for gaming.

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[–] jaykay 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might try Nix first and see how it goes, if that fails I'll try Kinoite (I prefer KDE :)) thanks for the input :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to try Nix, go for it!
Feel free to update us all :).

When I said Silverblue, I actually meant "atomic Fedora variants", which include uBlue and Kinoite. You can always switch between those with one command and 2 minutes of download time :)

[–] jaykay 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, actually this is not the first time me thinking about NixOS. But I tried reading their docs again and... I CANNOT be asked to deal with this. I'd probably be more likely to do LFS than learn NixOS lol I feel stupid now, saying I'll try NixOS. As much as I want to, the docs are horrendous

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

tbf the docs are in the format of manuals, i.e. only useful if you already know what you're looking for or have lots of time. If you don't, read blog posts and nixos.wiki.