Fedora Silverblue -- a very good balance of immutable distro and user friendliness. Stability and reliability of being immutable without low-level hacking like in Nix / Guix.
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There’s also secureblue, which is a fedora atomic fork with nice security hardening
Why go immutable? You can't install shit on immutable distros.
I use immutable distros for the stability, and the nixOS approach isn’t for me.
You can install whatever you like using a tool called distrobox, which allows you to run containers easily.
I have an arch Linux container, and I have access to the entire AUR if I so please. I use that container to run Steam, and performance was the same as on Bazzite using the natively installed Steam.
I do this too, being able to use Arch's packages while having Kinoite's stability is a really, really nice combo.
But because the apps are running in containers, the performance will take a hit. And also the customization.
the performance will take a hit
This is not entirely true. Is there overhead? Sure. But, if the distro used for the container provides (somehow) faster or more performative packages to begin with, then running software within a fast container can be faster that running it natively on the slower host. Link to the comment in which the link to the above benchmark can be found as proof. As can be seen, the Clear Linux container performs better in 90% of the benchmarks. And, the Fedora container is only negligibly (so within margin of error) less performative than the Fedora host.
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The whole of Fedora atomic distros are interesting in an exercise in getting good with layering and distrobox. Pop_os 24.04 just to see if a third pillar of Linux frontends with GTK and Qt is viable. People are always pissy about Manjaro but they seem to have an interesting present being pre installed on the Orange Pi Neo handheld
Linux Mint DE and Arch, the ultimate duo of Stability/Freindlyness & Power/Control
If you leave alone the haters, Ubuntu is doing great. Mint LDME also fantastic if you wish to have a rock solid base.
Anything in particular I should be wary of switching from Mint to Mint DE?
Been using Ubuntu for about 4 years now without issue. Even upgraded LTS versions without problems!
I upgraded LTS versions and it failed and left my system in a broken state I couldn't fix
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It's doing great unless you want to debug why chromium is not connecting to your USB devices
Hint: because they forced snap in you which doesn't support USB access
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probably a three way tie between fedora, ubuntu, and arch.
Linux Mint DE and Arch, the ultimate duo of Stability/Freindlyness & Power/Control
EndeavourOS, it's Arch with a familiar installer, several useful helper scripts, and a friendly community.
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