About immutable and atomic systems

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Do we have tunnel vision?
Fedora atomic and much more
You should check out this video.
Yes, Fedora is not a(s) rolling release like Arch and
atomic updates – transactional approach – are slower etc.

At the physical layer in my Ideapad

Keyboard suspend / resume

cat /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/my-kb.sh

#!/bin/sh
case $1/$2 in
  pre/*)
    echo "Going to $2..."
    # Commands to run BEFORE suspend
    echo i8042 > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/unbind
    ;;
  post/*)
    echo "Waking up from $2..."
    # Commands to run AFTER resume
    echo i8042 > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/bind
    ;;
esac

works only in non atomic Fedora (Cosmic)
I don’t mind this journey for the time being.
Edit:
TLTW: To oversimplify the video the goal is to recover your working environment
if hw is lost in less than 15 minutes. See stateless architecture / workstation.

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I am not sure what that video says exactly as I don’t have a lot of interest in watching a 42 minute video.

However, I have tried many of the various immutable and/or atomic distros and have used several of them extensively.

There are pros and cons to all of them. There is no perfect solution for everyone. You need to focus on what your specific needs are and find the right solution for you.

I would just say that immutable distros and not universally better or worse, they are different.

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I have used Fedora Silverblue and NixOS, what I found is in the end I found that I missed the freedom to do whatever I want which I have with Arch Linux. I thought about switching back to Fedora Silverblue but than I realized I have always ended up back on Arch Linux so better just to stay where I am :slight_smile:

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