UwUbuntu

LFS

I don't know but non-serious developers use Slackware.

YiffOS

gentoo

NixOS according to my local fetish community.

Among OS

You're just not cloud-native enough to understand how revolutionary it is to run GNOME on Fedora.

Just a bad attempt at marketing.

They should feel shame.

You're just not a serious developer 😒

Ahh you must be a frivolous developer

Are you cereal?

I can't take that much seriousness.

Damn, that sounds serious.

Yeah, they don't have a clear mission statement to explain the delta of "why does this exist, and what problems does it solve".

What’s the actual difference to fedora silverblue?

Hi! Co-maintainer here, you can find the differences in the github repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin

And there's a doc page going over it here: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=41

If you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer them!

This is the umpteenth time I’ve come across this project but I just don’t get what they’re going for here.

These are just custom images, are they not?

If I wanted Ubuntu I’d use Ubuntu. If I wanted Fedora I’d use Fedora. Maybe I’m not getting it but I wonder how big of a population that’s out there that wants some Ubuntu mixed in with a touch of Fedora and some buzzword salad thrown into the mix.

Yeah same, I'm a silly goose developer, can't use this. Sorry!

The base OS is a known unchanging set of bits. Squirt this datastream onto a storage volume and boot to it and you have a known-working system. Then you can futz around with all the self-contained packaged apps you want, and no worries about weird interactions fucking over your whole system.

It's not for me, but I kinda see the appeal.

It's when you can't set the volume to 0% so that everyone around you has to hear how hard you're working.

The system (the os files to be precise) is only mutable by package manager for specific tasks like updating. It can break certain workflows if the user wants to change system files, because they can't.

Bonuses from that are security and reproducibility. You can be sure that whatever package you have will look and behave exactly the same as on another device with the same OS. Malware won't be able to mess around with your OS so trivially as it does on mutable distros.

In this case it's referring to the fact that the OS is built upon the same containerization technology used on cloud platforms such as Kubernetes. As a marketing tool it's a bit buzzwordy, but it's not about running the core OS components outside of the physical machine here.