I cannot reconcile

It's like a saving throw in a video game, most times you can make it, but every once in a while you don't lol.

Bluefin has even less. I consider this near-zero documentation.

What do you feel is missing from the documentation, can you be specific? You're examples are too generalized to be actionable.

Awesome, glad it's working for you!

How would you even measure how many are turning away?

How would you recommend anyone measure this? So far the answer has been things like nvidia drivers and "anti-cheat doesn't work", which are things out of our control.

unwilling to cater to those who aren’t

If you don't understand what something is, it may be that you are not the target audience!

Your description as it is now targets tech experts, rather than laypeople

Laypeople don't install operating systems.

You feel justified in being technically correct, while I place more value on accessible descriptions for less technical (prospective) users.

Less technical users don't care and go download the ISO, they don't need to care about any of this.

Why would editing /etc be a problem?

This was a server issue, you can always report an issue in github and we'll take a look, it took 10m to fix. But crucially it found an edge case that we hadn't accounted for and haven't run into so far, so we'll work on making sure this won't happen again: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/643

Use the distrobox assemble command, that'll let you have an ini file with all the stuff you want and then when the assemble command runs it'll remake the entire thing. Then just toss the assemble in cron and you'll always have a fresh container with your exact setup.

being a mutable minimal CentOS. So all the linking and making immutable would need to be done.

No it's designed to be consumed as a base image for ostree enabled OCI containers.

https://github.com/ublue-os/main/blob/main/packages.json

Docs for future reference: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=868

mozillavpn

I would just overlay this, that's what it's there for, there's no need to do a full new image for VPN stuff.

If you kept a basic minimal Ubuntu host it would be trivial to maintain.

That's not true for most people.

I just don’t see the point. You want new users to understand containers.

You don't need to understand containers unless you're using the system for development -- which in Linux land means containers.

I didn't use any flatpaks on the workstation install. I'm about three years with this setup on 4 computers through multiple OS updates, works great.