Arch Linux is a good vision and a tab for the meds
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Arch Linux is a good vision and a tab for the meds
Most packages are purely additive to to system. If GNOME is part of the base system, I don’t care because I can just not use it. For packages that are mutually exclusive, well, usually that’s the distro picking it for you anyway, but if you insist on changing them then OverlayFS lets you mask files in the base.
For something like Arch or Gentoo, the read-only partition approach absolutely won’t work, but I know Fedora’s been working on an OSTree immutable approach, so it’s still technically a mutable partition but it’s defined declaratively and is still easy to roll back.
Immutable partitions are amazing for reliability, then you can just OverlayFS your mutable state on top of it
If it was on something like BTRFS it’d probably be fine, though I imagine there’s still a small window where the FS could flush while the file is being written. renameat2
has the EXCHANGE flag to atomically switch 2 files, so if arch maintainers want to fix it they could do
I think my BIOS has a setting to skip that part
2s in firmware??? I’m used to at least 30s
Steam OS is completely open source except for the Steam client.
They do, I was joking. It’s not as funny to say the ecosystem is slowly trudging along.
Wayland compositors might implement it this century
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Parts of it seem to be inherently more secure, but there are some pretty glaring holes. At least software distribution is much more secure than the Windows approach.