it lacks some cons of Atomic desktops
What would those cons be 😜? Btw, I’m fully aware of the arguments laid down by those averse to the idea of atomic distros. I’m mostly interested in the influence they have on a newer user. So, please, just reveal what you had in mind without searching up the cons 😉.
But some people in this thread are downvoting me for this. It feels like if I were hated for trying to delete Edge from Windows.
The KDE Plasma circlejerk is real 🤣.
I’m more focused on resource usage reasonability, efficiency and control.
And my aspiration to decide and control what happens in my PC
One day I’ll just come up with using DIY distros like Arch and Gentoo and building custom kernels, so I’ll be responsible for any kind of bloat there.
Or perhaps NixOS. It allows for congruent system management rather trivially. Add to that the impermanence module, and the amount of control you’ll have on your machine is simply unmatched.
It comes at a cost, though. NixOS is the most complex distro out of the reasonably popular ones[1]. But, honestly, it isn’t that bad. If you’ve got experience with programming, you can dive right in (within a VM). And otherwise, after you’ve become comfortable with Arch or Gentoo, then NixOS becomes a logical step-up.
But the day hasn’t come yet, I’m still new to Linux.
Welcome 😊! I await to see what you’ll bring to the table 😜.
Technically, Gentoo is also on that chart. And if it wasn’t clear already, NixOS is more complex than Gentoo. ↩︎





Thank you for quenching my curiosity! The analogy to Android makes me worry that you might be associating stuff with atomic distros that are not (inherently) tied to them. Which, to be fair, happens a LOT, unfortunately…
In short, as secureblue is ultimately derived from Fedora Atomic, it follows (most of) its conventions. Though, it’s most similar to uBlue in particular due to relying on their images initially. As such, all methods of installing software on say Bazzite apply to secureblue as well. Note, however, that secureblue prefers to keep it leaner for the sake of both security and simplicity. Finally, like Fedora Atomic and uBlue, it also allows you to customize the guts of your OS by creating/configuring an image.
If you can run KDE Plasma, then you should be able to run both NixOS and Gentoo.
😅. Honestly, I think it’s exaggerated. But I’m only ankles deep in NixOS…