[cesarb]

> we've worked on making upgrades painless, so that they're basically an automated thing that happens while you go for coffee once or twice a year (at your option)

In my experience (just went through that, F32 -> F33), it's painless but definitely not "an automated thing that happens while you go for coffee"; each machine took a whole day, it's a huge download (many gigabytes) and the install itself seems to be severely fsync-limited (several hours while the progress bar slowly fills and the disk light is lit all the time; after the fact, "journalctl -b -1" shows it was installing/cleaning package by package all that time).

[m4rtink]

Fedora Silverblue can be an option then - the roots is an immutable snapshots tracked by OSTree It can build an updated OSTree snapshot in the background & only the difference from what you have are downloaded. Then you reboot into that new snapshot, while still having the old one (and ony other you care to keep) available, in case something is not right with the new one.

That should address most of the issues you mention. :)

[eropple]

Silverblue, in my experience, is not really there. I like the idea. As of my latest try at it in August, I wouldn't recommend anybody recommend it unless they're going to be physically standing in front of the machine on a regular basis.

[m4rtink]

Yeah, it's true that the people I know that use it do so on workstations. Still IMHO the technology (OSTree) is solid & perfect match for various server & mobile use cases. Once mature enough of course. :)