Yeah that would be the “cloud native” way XD

I have used Gitea actions and container registry before, it is okay.

It is the fastest, nothing more

No transparent compression is important too, you will need more storage than when using BTRFS with zstd compression

Also no deduplication, so again more storage

Your specific NixOS problem it not unique

They do check some packages but not all, only the critical ones. And there is a tool to check if there a hydra build failures before updating.

But yeah it is problematic that NixOS is primarily source-based, most importantly as hydra builds everything and if a binary is not there, that is like always a build failure. Requesting those infos from hydra all the time also makes no sense, so this should really be solved on the branch/channel level

VanillaOS and OpenSUSE immutable ones use BTRFS snapshots dont they? Not sure how VanillaOS does their A/B root.

These systems always involve copying things around and deduplicating them.

Filesystem snapshots are well deduplicated, nixos does that well too though.

On fedora atomic desktops /etc is completely writable so you can configure some things. And using rpm-ostree it is possible to do weird things too

But you should have a look at how Bazzite is actually built. A bunch of containerfiles, scripts, ujust files, … not hard to understand but kinda messy. And you kinda need a server. On NixOS you do this on your machine.

And do note that there are presets online and people help you set things up.

I can recommend universal blues base kinoite image as it includes distrobox, all video codecs and has an nvidia variant for the poor nvidia users

Works, fedora atomic desktops with ostree and no changes. If you want changes using rpm-ostree that will become really slow.

NixOS is also immutable and if you dont stumble over something that needs compilation as it is not in the binary caches, it runs very fine on lower end hardware like my Chromebook. Not a potato but pretty damn slow

Framework if you dont mind relying on the Community for coreboot support.

Otherwise System76, Novacustom, Starlabs, Nitropad, … there is a handful of sellers of coreboot laptops which is a market you should totally invest in. Coreboot is amazing and there is quite a variety!

Also not to forget Chromebooks, but they are extremely limited and mostly unrepairable.

I used GNOME for work and it was interesting. There are pros and cons, but generally I prefer KDE A LOT and basically made GNOME look like some form of KDE.

GNOME seems to be significantly more stable but also has significantly less features. Both are very important and sadly the stability doesnt seem to have changed much. I still have the panel disappearing after some time etc. KDE got way better here and they want to invest into their CI a lot including memory leak tests. We can also expect improvements due to the funding they get for their 6.6 LTS version (funded by Kubuntu Focus).

GNOME has extensions which can do a lot but have basically no guarantees to be secure or verified or anything, which is very problematic also for security. On GNOME you rely on those even for simple things like a clipboard manager or blur.

I like some GNOME apps, but generally they are just so much worse than KDE apps. They have no up-to-date terminal that has features, like wtf? Their text editor is too simple and they dont have a simple IDE like Kate, theirs is too much “project focused”. They dont have a simple image editor, at all. Or a QR code generator, or KDE Connect, or GUI settings for half the things etc.