Fedora Onyx To Become An Official Fedora Linux Immutable Variant
Fedora Onyx To Become An Official Fedora Linux Immutable Variant
There's been a proposal for Fedora Linux to become a new Fedora immutable variant and now it's been approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) to happen for the Fedora 39 cycle.
I've first used Linux when I got a copy of fedora in some tech magazine on CD in the late 90s. But I'm wayyyyyyy out of touch. What's onyx? I haven't used Linux since Slackware, Debian, and Redhat were popular. Fucking loved that shit though. Learned so much about computers in middle school.
I started around the same time as you, and had a Mac hiatus for a long time. Come back, Linux as a desktop OS is more polished than ever. Since you've been gone a while, you probably aren't familiar with Budgie, but essentially, after GNOME came out with version 3, a lot of people lost their shit because it was a drastic shift in UI workflow. It splintered a lot of people to start new projects that were GTK-based, but not GNOME. Budgie is one of those sort of flavors of desktop environments.
Fedora Onyx is an immutable version of that distro with Budgie as the DE. If you're not familiar with immutable distros (they're not so mainstream yet), they're essentially a special installation where all the system files are read-only.
Hm, what is a benefit of that? Non power users just not fucking shit up?
Also, I have a monster windows PC I built for work (4k and 6k video editing), but I'm probably going to buy a laptop here in a week or so. Just for writing and streaming video in my bedroom. Any suggestions on a simple distro for that? Just need stability, a notepad-like app, and the ability to use a browser, a VPN, and solid video rendering.