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Innovative operating systems including Linux distributions, specially those which are usable? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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In my experience, the most innovative distributions include NixOS and GNU Guix System (Nix influenced it): determinism/correctness, pure functional paradigm, declarative, atomic, departing from FHS for good, ... And they are pretty useful currently: Nix has the most packages, both are declarative so can easily reuse the configuration and apply in infrastructure as code, can rollback, can use for development (basically a way better alternative to Docker), can use in other distributions and Nix even on MacOS... Nix community being generally more practical, agile and flexible, while the GNU Guix community enforcing more correctness (building everything in their repositories from source including all transitive dependencies) and software freedom as GNU/FSF defines.

Other distributions I could include are musl based ones, Clear Linux, Fedora SIlverblue, OpenSUSE MicroOS, and projects like sel4, Theseus OS, but I don't have much experience with them to describe them fairly. So please lets discourse about innovative distributions and operating systems, those which you have experienced, which you may be excited about.

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[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fedora Silverblue. I really like the stability of having a base image that you slap a bunch of Flatpaks on to.

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

i need to test silverblue a bit more. from the innovative distros i know about, silverblue is the most user friendly which is good. it takes the immutable store, atomicity concepts from Nix and implements them in a different way. when i used it, what I did not like was flatpaks were pretty limited (few available software). Another issue with flatpaks for me is the way they handle dependencies: the flatpak community does not maintain a comprehensive shared dependencies repository, so whenever one has to package flatpak has to duplicate many dependencies definitions...

[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want some more flatpaks, try Flathub.

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't flathub enabled by default on Silverblue?

[–] johnnymojo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure about Silverblue, but on Fedora desktop I had to manualy add the flathub repository, but it's easy enough. I found the Fedora flatpack repo had a more limited selection of applications.