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by jyrkesh 1272 days ago
Good data for VM folks, but I really have accepted at this point that the VM experience is almost completely distinct from the bare metal experience.

I'm really looking for a dependable pseudo-desktop/server OS for the monolithic legacy box at home. In terms of immutable, NixOS is it right now, but tbh it's had enough random uptime issues as of late, I'm starting to doubt my decision. Though I still haven't narrowed it down to this machine as opposed to some network/routing/storage problem
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bogwog 1271 days ago
Have you tried Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite (the KDE version)? They also offer a fully immutable file system. The only hard part is adapting to life with an immutable filesystem, getting used to running things in containers/toolboxes, using flatpaks/appimage/snaps, etc.

I've been on it exclusively on my desktop and laptop for the past couple of months and have grown to like it a lot.

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nix23 1272 days ago
>dependable pseudo-desktop/server OS for the monolithic legacy box at home.

OpenVMS for x86_64 should come out for the community in May ;)

However in the meantime, try FreeBSD.

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