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16 - 11/18/21 - Fedora Kinoite

So I'm not much of a Fedora fan, I think that they are bit too non-user friendly,

and seem to care more about making profit as Red Hat than listening to the

community. I'm glad that recently they made RHEL practically free, but I still

prefer a community option like AlmaLinux. Anyways, onto the real topic at hand:

Fedora Kinoite!

So Kinoite is a up-and-coming operating system that has a primary selling point

of being immutable. Basically, they want to turn Fedora into something akin to

NixOS/Guix. This is all well and good, but the problem is that their primary

leverage is flatpaks. At least in my case, on a single machine. On all my other

machines that are newer, flatpaks aren't causing any sort of trouble. But on

my older machine that uses a HDD, the flatpak loading time is atrocious. Like,

it takes longer than a minute to load a sinple application. Also there's the fact

that my older system only has 4 GB of RAM, so that probably plays into it as well.

So I've learned one thing, Kinoite probably isn't a good fit for older systems and

that flatpaks take up too much memory and need a SSD for any sort of decent loading

time.

It seems it's that way for operating system like NixOS as well. When

I used NixOS on my laptop, it chugged... but say I use a less intensive system,

like OpenSUSE or Void, it ran pretty well.

So, here's my review of Kinoite: I think it is a possible good future path

for Fedora, but flatpaks are they are right now have many drawbacks. Other

than that, it's great!

Question of the moment:

What are your thoughts on immutable systems like Kinoite?

Answer me at fuuma@hackers.town on Mastodon!

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