Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.
    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      I feel that I am 50:50 on it, immutable at least conveyed more information about what it is while Atomic feels a lot more “buzz-word-y” and does not convey as well what it means. Regardless, I’d say the bigger issue is keeping the old Silverblue & Kinoite names, they really should change them even if it means having a ~2 year period of having “Formerly Silverblue / Kinoite”.

      • @[email protected]
        8•1 year ago

        Issue is that Immutable also conveyed a different type of information. When I first heard of it, I genuinely thought it was something like DeepFreeze for Windows

      • @[email protected]
        6•1 year ago

        Are you familiar with the concept of “atomicity” in relation to database systems? It’s actually a very appropriate term, and the article touches on its use over “immutable”.

  • Scio
    11•1 year ago

    I was kinda warming up to the totally unintended slightly inconsistent mineral based naming scheme tbh. But then, hadn’t fully…

  • GiddyEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    I’m running Onyx (sorry… Fedora Budgie Atomic) on my Thinkpad and love it. Last night I decided to give Sway a shot and, when I was done with that, rolled back to Budgie without any of the cruft of installing additional DE’s alongside each other.

    • @[email protected]OP
      5•1 year ago

      Right? This is one of the main reasons I love Silverblue so much: every time I wanted to test something out, it’s as quick and easy as it gets.

    • GiddyEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah I had a similar experience when logging on to Sway - I had no clue what to do. Did you ever figure out how to bring up a menu or launcher? All I could do after googling was launch a terminal