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[–] j0rge@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Convince me to switch!

Why? If your computer is working fine there's no reason to mess with it. bootc images are for people who do not want to use whatever you mean by 'normal' Fedora.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm told my cute'n'calm Hexbear instance means there's a lot of drama here I can't see. So apologies if my tone comes off badly in the ol' .ml context.

Rest assured I was just out for fun conversation to learn about atomic stuff :) Hope the rest of this thread ain't too stressful.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Because I was being told the pros outweight the cons, and if I can get a better OS, then I want it? I feel like it was a reasonable question and we had a good conversation out of it.

I also put 'normal' in quotes myself, I obviously meant a non-atomic Fedora.

I feel like you're coming across unnecessarily dismissively here, when I was just out for a nice conversation on the benefit of atomic setups (and got two! :) ).

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

j0rge is one of the main devs of bazzite and theres a lot of very strange people in this thread on lemmy.ml chumming the waters here, atomic distros doing well apparently bring out the worst in the strangest linux nerds who think their way of life is under attack. On hexbear a lot of these people causing a ruckus probably aren't even viewable

edit: yeah the thread here on lemmy.ml has 153 comments currently and on hexbear its 63 and much more tame, lol

[–] quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

They should be scared, we're here to replace their 30-year failed experiment with tech that's already successful everywhere Linux makes money.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Oof, fair enough, I certainly don't see a lot of said ruckus. Cheers for the context.