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Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November. (thelemmy.club)
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Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been using Linux as my main OS for about 15 years. I had my system break down in other occasions in the same way you describe. It is a nuisance, but luckily it never was a major problem. I believe once I had to reinstall the system, I was very happy to have a separate home partition.

I'm not sure what you mean by layering apps over the system, that could be interesting. Especially because I imagine something like a VPN needs root access. Is it possible to install a binary as a service with root access if that is not available in the repositories? I do for example have to use a quite obscure VPN protocol.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Yeah. You can layer it like a git repo fork layers it's changes. If something breaks you can just clear that forked branch and redo it. Takes like 2 minutes to fix.

    So yeah you can alter system files in a very safe way and can easily revert changes if you don't like the result. rpm-ostree reset is the command that clears all changes and resets to master. I'd recommend looking at the rpm-ostree docs for a full explanation of functionality

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