Silverblue is actually the only OS I’ve been using for the past year - I’ve gotten NixOS installed to my laptop once or twice but went right back to Silverblue since I couldn’t maintain a Nix config I liked.
If I ever want anything newer or older, I can always rebase my Silverblue install to Rawhide or a previous commit. It’s just one rpm-ostree away.
Arch is what I run inside of distrobox, I haven’t used it on bare metal in… I think, two years now? I’ve found Arch to be one of the best distributions for use in a container, it’s simple, minimal, and (with a few minor tweaks) very easy to understand and utilize.
Lots of developers seem to love NixOS, I think I’m with you in not having been able to set it up exactly how I wanted. Silverblue is definitely on the ‘play with’ list.
I use Alpine for containers (LXC usually, sometimes Docker). Super tiny, very very minimal. apk add <package> and you’re golden. PostmarketOS even gets basically Alpine working on things like Pinephones, which is fun to play with.
Silverblue is actually the only OS I’ve been using for the past year - I’ve gotten NixOS installed to my laptop once or twice but went right back to Silverblue since I couldn’t maintain a Nix config I liked.
If I ever want anything newer or older, I can always rebase my Silverblue install to Rawhide or a previous commit. It’s just one
rpm-ostreeaway.Arch is what I run inside of distrobox, I haven’t used it on bare metal in… I think, two years now? I’ve found Arch to be one of the best distributions for use in a container, it’s simple, minimal, and (with a few minor tweaks) very easy to understand and utilize.
Lots of developers seem to love NixOS, I think I’m with you in not having been able to set it up exactly how I wanted. Silverblue is definitely on the ‘play with’ list.
I use Alpine for containers (LXC usually, sometimes Docker). Super tiny, very very minimal.
apk add <package>and you’re golden. PostmarketOS even gets basically Alpine working on things like Pinephones, which is fun to play with.