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Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've recently taken an interest in these three distros:

All of these offer something very interesting:
Access to (basically) all Linux-capable software, no matter from what repo.

Both NixOS and blendOS are based on config files, from which your system is basically derived from, and Vanilla OS uses a package manager apx to install from any given repo, regardless of distribution.

While I've looked into Fedora Silverblue, that distro is limited to only install Flatpaks (edit: no, not really), which is fine for "apps", but seems to be more of a problem with managing system- and CLI tools.

I haven't distro hopped yet, as I'm still on Manjaro GNOME on my devices.

What are your thoughts on the three distros mentioned above?
Which ones are the most interesting, and for what reasons?

Personally, I'm mostly interested in NixOS & blendOS, as I believe they may have more advantages compared to Arch;

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Listen to the "Linux User Space" podcast, episode 404. They explain every immutability model af of now. Ubuntu Core is missing.

Ubuntu is creating something new, looks really great but based on snaps, which are not bad packages but rely on a nonfree store that cant be replaced. So meh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not bad packages

I've made the opposite experience. There were loads of snap-specific issues when I used ubuntu. So many that I now recommend not using ubuntu just because of snaps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your suggestion, but I'll never use snaps/snapcraft/snapd by choice;

I do see the reasons for why developers/app maintainers may want to (universally) package themselves, but we've got Flatpak for that.

Less loopback devices = better imho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agree partly. Maybe snaps are bad, dont know the details, but if system packages and even the kernel can be packaged, thats pretty nice