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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

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georgetakei , to Random
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Ok, I definitely did a double-take 🤣

vwbusguy ,
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@georgetakei I kept trying to process this as some kind of Amish cat.

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So I recently ran across this post and thread by @vwbusguy, and I would like to try to address some of the questions/misconceptions/etc that come up in the thread.

If you have questions, please, ask. What we do with isn't identical to what does with their , but many of the concepts for the end user are going to be similar/the same.

https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/111887740588197543

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@kalpa Hey there. I just want to say that I'm also a fan of and their approach to this as well. I maintain a bunch of SLE Micro servers in production in my dayjob and it is legit amazing. I love as a user that is not a zero sum game and that we have some great choices in this space, as well as common areas for collaboration and innovation. As a user myself, I'm thrilled exists!

vwbusguy ,
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@kalpa For one thing, I love that and play well together such that I can easily build and test things for using from , not to mention the usefulness of OBS for generating/maintaining custom, immutable OpenSUSE images.

vwbusguy ,
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@kalpa I have no idea if this is a thing or not, but there could be some interesting potential for style tools for and/or OBS. I know it's a different beast than ostree, but it could be awesome having a Ublue + SUSE Elemental approach to innovating custom immutable desktop environments on as well.

vwbusguy ,
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@jorge @kalpa I don't mean style in terms of aesthetics, but rather was pondering a similar way of customizing and extending Aeon/Kalpa.

For what it's worth, I'm a little under the weather today and mentally a bit foggy, so my apologies if my words aren't coming out quite right at the moment.

vwbusguy ,
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@jorge @kalpa Let me ask it a different way - what might it look like to recreate the Bazzite experience out of box but based on Kalpa?

vwbusguy ,
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@jorge @kalpa I also would think. There is that detail about difference in how those RPMs are delivered and different installers, but it doesn't seem entirely insurmountable.

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For users of any operating system, not just , what might keep you from trying/running an desktop? If you are already running one, why did you choose it?

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

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