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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All of this looks very complicated. What advantages does this have over other immutable systems, like fedora silverblue or opensuse aeon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It also uses “abroot”, so it switches between root partitions with changes