Manjaro Immutable Out Now for Community Testing
Manjaro Immutable Out Now for Community Testing
Powered by Arkdep from the Arkane Linux project this exciting new Manjaro variant is available for public testing right now! The goal of this release is to gather community feedback on the technology powering Manjaro Immutable. Note that this is only an experimental release and not representative ...
Immutables are cool—I’ve been running Silverblue for over half a year now. However, this seems half baked?
Unless I’ve misunderstood, you can no longer use pacman (without losing your changes after the next update).
And arkdep itself is just a shell script without any tests or continuous integration. I would be skeptical of using such a tool to control the integrity of my system.
it's a manjaro project, ofc it's half baked
It's half baked: like the post says, it's the first testing version. It will be developed more, like a member of the team said:
Our plan is definitely for it to become an official variant of Manjaro. With the community testing version we’re now gathering some feedback on what people expect from such a variant and what should still go in there or what could be slimmed down.
It's clearly not ready.
It kinda feels like it goes against what Manjaro was supposed to be though. A safer version of Arch but with about the same features, including its massive software pool to pull from - and that exactly is what would fall flat in this case, since you'd need very selectively maintained "packages", which would be extremely limited in comparison to someone with access to regular repos and the AUR.
I don't understand the hype of immutables, or usability even. I tried Bazzite today after Nobara nuked itself, and I couldn't even paste my old Firefox profile since the actual folder apparently sits within the immutable folder structure. Maybe that's fine for grandmas who just want to casually browse the internet but this seems extremely counter intuitive and an incredible hassle. I didn't even have time to reach the software limitations with how fast I tried the next distro. Still hopping though, because apparently Fedora just nukes itself when you try to install codecs and I think I have about every major distro tested by now. Linux is cursed.
I could probably summarize your experience as "skill issue".
I don’t understand the hype of immutables, or usability even.
I suppose this article/blogpost by Lennart Poettering should suffice. Though, this article/blogpost by Colin Walters is also cool.
I tried Bazzite today after Nobara nuked itself, and I couldn’t even paste my old Firefox profile since the actual folder apparently sits within the immutable folder structure.
This is simply false as pointed out by others already.
I didn’t even have time to reach the software limitations with how fast I tried the next distro.
You will have a very hard time on Linux with that mindset. And, to be honest, literally any OS you aren't already familiar with.
Still hopping though, because apparently Fedora just nukes itself when you try to install codecs
I wouldn't be surprised if you just searched this through your favorite search engine and settled with whatever random solution you came across instead of relying upon RPM Fusion's documentation on the matter.
and I think I have about every major distro tested by now.
While this could be true, I wonder what prevented you from sticking with any one of them.
Linux is cursed.
It's definitely a lot harder if you've got major skill issues.
Oh that's a fun idea! I may try it.
Nice