Alternative to Vanilla OS?
It is made by the Ubuntu Unity maintainer.
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Does it also blend all disadvantages and bugs of each distro? 
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This and Vanilla seem to provide nearly the same thing. Immutable system, GNOME, other packages running in containers. Based on Arch instead of Ubuntu like Vanilla but that is unimportant when the distro is immutable.
My opinion? Pass!
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A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.
Is there really a way to blend all the Distros completely seamlessly? Im not confident in that statement
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When Anbox / Waydroid can blend Android GUI apps with a certain level of integrity then a Linux distro can esily blend containers of other distros.
My experience with Anbox and Waydroid has been far less than seamless lol
It works, but not without a good chunk of problems. Its certainly an interesting idea, but time will tell on its seamlessness
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We have a frog, we can try it.
But I also will skip itā¦I donāt need to run immutable with overhead. At least not till I get a new pc.
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āseamlessā is a big word in the topic name. IMHO if humans could be perfect, then anything could be seamless. Not being cynical butā¦ to some people/organizations/governments āseamlessā means āerror-free codeā or āit must fit me like a gloveā or āit cannot crash during mission criticalā.
I have so many mixed and conflicting thoughts about this. Rolling, yet immutableā¦? 
Donāt like this one either. 
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Iām not exactly sure how all the things they are promising are even possible. Has anyone given it a try yet?
I tried it but it didnāt size properly in vm so i tossed it! Thatās what i do when stuff doesnāt work ootb. 
Edit: Iāll install it now on bare metal. Give me 5 minutes and it will be done.
Edit2: Installed itās annoyingly slow because every time you install something it has to create a container. I tried to install spectacle and i canāt even find it. Iām not sure if you have to reboot into the container it creates or what? I did that but still donāt see it?
ricklinux@blend ~ %> pacman -Qi spectacle
Name : spectacle
Version : 22.12.1-1
Description : KDE screenshot capture utility
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/
Licenses : GPL
Groups : kde-applications kde-graphics
Provides : None
Depends On : xcb-util-cursor purpose knewstuff kwayland qt5-tools kimageannotator
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 2.87 MiB
Packager : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Tue Jan 3 06:05:03 2023
Install Date : Thu Jan 26 17:56:44 2023
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
ricklinux@blend ~ %>
Sayās itās installed? Canāt find it?
Edit3: Nopeā¦still donāt like it. 
Edit4: Takes way too long to reboot. Trust me Iām coming from EndeavourOS KDE that boots instantly and shuts down instantly! Iām talking in terms of seconds! 4-6 seconds to shut down. Reboot is very fast also. Cold boot is the longest but only 16-18 seconds most of the time.
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Dev of blendOS here.
Thatās because the current ISO only supports UEFI systems. You should be able to enable āEFI bootingā if youāre using VirtualBox, or switch to UEFI firmware in virt-manager.
Thatās only the first time you install an app from a distro. As for why Spectacle doesnāt show up, as clearly mentioned in the message shown everytime you open a terminal, you need to manually export apps if youāre installing them by directly running pacman or any other package manager (in this case, blend export spectacle). This is why itās recommended to use blend to install packages directly (as it automatically exports installed programs). For example, blend install spectacle (it automatically exports Spectacle).
Whoa, thatās really unexpected (as the boot and shutdown time should be in line with a fresh Arch install + GNOME/any other DE). Cold boot takes around 3 seconds in a VirtualBox VM for me (with 8 threads and 6144MBs of RAM), and shutting down takes around 4 seconds.
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Welcome to EnOSā forum @rs2009!
And thanks for all the great work you do and have done on Linux!
Wish you all the best!
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Welcome to the EndeavourOS forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.
Pudge
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@rs2009 welcome to EndeavourOS forum, itās always exciting (sometimes interesting) to have a developer join an impersonal posting forum. Interesting product you have but not for me because Iām still trying to become Linux āintermediateā user, still trying to remove the mudguards out of using Windows for many years.
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There version of a welcome app only available on Gnome desktop. No fan of that.
### First Setup
Ease into BlendOS with our user-friendly First Setup app, your one-stop guide to effortlessly setting up and navigating BlendOS
Always nice to see Devs from other distros stop by 
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I have 2 major annoyances with immutable distros:
- The A/B root system. On Vanilla this was configured to 20 GiB each partition so 40 GiB total. Is the size set same on BlendOS or something smaller? I can give a total of 75 GiB to Linux and rest goes to Windows so I donāt want to give most of it to system.
- Kernel modules. I need an obscure kernel module for keyboard backlight which is installed either via DKMS or make install, can I install it to immutable distributions? Also if I want to run Nvidia Vulkan developer driver, can I also install it?