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Why is the terminal useless?
She's exaggerating
VERY much.
It was hyperbole. I used Silverblue for a bit trying to avoid layering packages entirely.
But not being able to simply install CLI system tools I'm used to (like btop) or rummaging around in /etc felt really limiting. I realize that's on me, cause these distros work differently.
Sorry, I didn't get this. Could you elaborate?
I meant not being able to rummage around in /etc .
Since it is read-only, you always have to copy a config file into your home/user/.config/... before you can edit it.
Sorry, I think there's a misunderstanding.
First of all, thank you for clarifying what you meant. I'm not native, so I haven't seen "rummage" being used within that context. And while a LLM did (at least an attempt to) provide its meaning, it didn't make sense... by which we have arrived at the misunderstanding.
Yes, for Fedora Atomic, (most of)
/usris read-only. Perhaps this also applies to some other folders of/, however this doesn't apply to/etcas it's not read-only; therefore, you can actually change its content. At best, you'd have to gosudo(or fill the credentials through polkit's window); but that's all. This part isn't different from how it's over on (traditional) Fedora. Compared to its non-Atomic variant, however, we do find the following changes regarding/etc:/etcare being kept track of. You can access these throughostree admin config-diff./etcis kept at/usr/etc. And, that one, is actually read-only.So..., the following step, i.e.
Isn't required or anything. Heck, it's the first time (after three years of Fedora Atomic) that I've seen something like that being mentioned within this context.
Then either they changed that, or I didn't understand it right, while I was using it.
Probably the latter. That being said, my other frustration was a lack of easily discoverable in-depth documentation.
But I wouldn't be surprised if I was just too dumb to find that, too.
That's indeed a big concern. Thanks for mentioning that.
FWIW, uBlue's images (which are just opinionated takes on Fedora Atomic) have better documentation, but those have only more recently been a thing.