Guenther_Amanita, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

NixOS

• "The new Arch"
• Very customizable and minimalist
• Semi-Immutable
• Huge community and very old
• Very different than others
• Config-based
• Not very (new) user friendly, wouldn’t use it. Too complicated for me

BlendOS

• Doesn’t offer much new stuff for me, nothing they offer is substantial for me.
• Small dev team

VanillaOS

• "The new Linux Mint"
• Huge focus on usability and user friendliness
• Apx is basically only a wrapper for distrobox
• Small dev team (the same one that also develops Bottles)
• Huge potential, but not quite there yet
• Will recommend it to new users when it’s updated to 2.0

Silverblue

• My recommendation
• Is one of the oldest immutables and very well thought out
• Biggest dev and userbase
• You can not only install Flatpaks, but also everything else with Distrobox and rpm-ostree
• Best feature: you can easily rebase to it’s other spins or the custom ones from uBlueI just rebased this weekend from the SB to the Kinoite-Spin in just one command. I was able to “change distro” without resinstalling, and KDE was installed very cleanly without leftovers.