Okey, Fedora Silverue is exactly what you describe than? Sure that does not mean Vanilla OS is bad or not needed, indeed it is very interesting and while I am not going to switch, I would consider it, if I were using Mint. Also such uncommon distro is always better, than hundreds of common copycat distros appear 😀
Actually, I switched to SB just a few months ago, and I’m really really happy with it!
The main advantage for me for SB is that I can always rebase to any other official immutable spin (KDE, Sway, Budgie) or inofficial (from uBlue) variant.
In this way, I can quickly swap out everything except my “own” stuff (personal files, installed apps) super easily without reinstalling.
Theoretically, that should be possible on mutable distros too, but is really “dirty” and risky.
On SB, it is done in a few minutes with one command and without any residues.
VanillaOS offers all those other benefits (unbreakability, easy updates, etc.) too, but I wanted to keep the option to change the OS later on (rebase), which VOS doesn’t offer atm.
Even though I love Gnome dearly, offering only that is too restrictive for me.
SB gives me all those features from VOS too, with Distrobox. I can even use apx if I want.
Also, I wanted to wait until VOS becomes more mature and wait until version 2.0. (Base changed to Debian, other release cycle, etc.).
VOS doesn’t seem like a competitor to SB. More like a “future version” of what Mint could be, with the same philosophy, just executed differently with today’s new technologies.
Not sure why switching DE is important, but did you tried NixOS? It is not even immutable, it is reproducible, everything is described in a configuration file, changing it changes everything, but in a true way, like it builds everything from a config, I liked how it works, but it is time consuming to learn, search, tinker. I like keeping things simple, Silverblue does it so well for me, I guess switching to common distro is a noway for me now.
Okey, Fedora Silverue is exactly what you describe than? Sure that does not mean Vanilla OS is bad or not needed, indeed it is very interesting and while I am not going to switch, I would consider it, if I were using Mint. Also such uncommon distro is always better, than hundreds of common copycat distros appear 😀
Actually, I switched to SB just a few months ago, and I’m really really happy with it!
The main advantage for me for SB is that I can always rebase to any other official immutable spin (KDE, Sway, Budgie) or inofficial (from uBlue) variant.
In this way, I can quickly swap out everything except my “own” stuff (personal files, installed apps) super easily without reinstalling.
Theoretically, that should be possible on mutable distros too, but is really “dirty” and risky. On SB, it is done in a few minutes with one command and without any residues.
VanillaOS offers all those other benefits (unbreakability, easy updates, etc.) too, but I wanted to keep the option to change the OS later on (rebase), which VOS doesn’t offer atm. Even though I love Gnome dearly, offering only that is too restrictive for me.
SB gives me all those features from VOS too, with Distrobox. I can even use apx if I want.
Also, I wanted to wait until VOS becomes more mature and wait until version 2.0. (Base changed to Debian, other release cycle, etc.).
VOS doesn’t seem like a competitor to SB. More like a “future version” of what Mint could be, with the same philosophy, just executed differently with today’s new technologies.
Not sure why switching DE is important, but did you tried NixOS? It is not even immutable, it is reproducible, everything is described in a configuration file, changing it changes everything, but in a true way, like it builds everything from a config, I liked how it works, but it is time consuming to learn, search, tinker. I like keeping things simple, Silverblue does it so well for me, I guess switching to common distro is a noway for me now.