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The best thing for an inexperienced user. It's simply unbreakable. Immutability rocks.
Except it breaks every couple months and the devs have no concept of rolling updates back.
Source: Silverblue user for 2 years.
My wife has been using Fedora Silverblue for almost 4 year on two laptops. There were no issue, nada, what so ever. It really just works. Yes, some bug could occur. And Fedora bug tracker is an awesome place for dealing with that. I believe, nobody will roll back a change just because of a single bug report but in my experience most bugs are being fixed pretty quickly if a reporter provides info to do that.
Flatpaks were impossible to install JUST THE OTHER DAY.
This is a random hearsay. Please, show a link to the bug report.
Sure, why not?
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5452
Before you get all semantic, despite being on "flatpak" github page, the problem only affected Fedora.
Should I also link to the time where rpm-ostree could not update or install anything? Which of those times should I link?
Ok. Bug was fixed. Bugs happen. I guess a regular user will get the fix eventually.
Also, that didn't break the system. Sure, a new app wouldn't be possible to install but the system worked overall and users were able to perform their tasks;)
Ohhh, the narrative is changing, previously you were denying any bad things. Progress, perhaps?
Keep in mind it was impossible to install the distribution when rpm-ostree broke and it would be useless when flatpak broke. Of course, you could check the forums and see workarounds but that's not very different from downloading an older ISO in any distribution.
Alas good luck being a normal user when you decide to install something because... well, it's your computer. And then it doesn't work. Repeat this for multiple days several times a year because Fedora devs have no concept of rolling back updates and you got yourself a problem.