What are the pros and cons for desktops ? EDIT : Thanks all. I’ll try Silverblue, bazzite and more.

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      9 months ago

      Most people aren’t system administrators and they end up with broken computers for the most basic tasks. It’s one of the major reasons why people hate using Linux desktops.

      And even if you’re an experienced sysadmin you can’t account for the entropy that accumulates on traditional OSes. 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 doesn’t end up being the same as a 22.04 clean install. This is a huge problem, especially for people who don’t know how to manage linux systems. And the people who do manage systems at scale don’t want that behavior either.

      I go over this in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn5xNLH-5eA

      But day to day I’m in an ubuntu container and using “normal” package management, I just don’t do it on the host.