I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    uBlue f**ed up their site a while ago, they had a huge list of images.

    You can just use their kinoite-main image, which is what I do. It has Distrobox, homebrew and a few more things.

    Here is an archived site

    Use kinoite-main:latest and you will even get automatic version upgrades without a problem.

    You can still rebase, you know? I tried Aurora and it was not for me, back on normal Kinoite.

    But for sure it is a bit annoying to layer. But no issue. I layer 20 packages or so, 300 with dependencies, and all is fine.

    I dont know about ROCM, their hardware enablement to my knowledge is just about NVIDIA, Asus and other proprietary stuff.