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What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I'll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

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[–] Virulent@reddthat.com 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Atomic desktops make all of that way easier though

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Virulent@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

Because all changes are transactional so you can easily revert to a previous system state if you break anything

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

With fedora atomic, lets say i wanted to try out kde desktop for a while. i would first pin my current build so i can roll back to it if i dont end liking kde with

$ sudo ostree admin pin 0

Then i would rebase to the kde branch with

$ rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/39/x86_64/kinoite

Then just reboot. That’s literally it and i would have a kde system with all my layered packages and i could roll back to my old system at anytime.