bsergay , 29 days ago

Thanks!

It has been my pleasure.

Well I think that the atomic distros, especially desktops, have a big future

So do I. Though, I think they’ll have a big future across the board.

I hope openSUSE gets to keep working on those.

Yup, me too. I trust that at least openSUSE Aeon will thrive (through Richard Brown). And hopefully that will eventually result into a healthy ecosystem in which more ‘immutable’/atomic spins (with other desktop environments) will follow.

I might try Kalpa actually. Seems like the openSUSE version of Fedora Kinoite?

Technically, it’s indeed openSUSE’s take on an ‘immutable’/atomic distro with KDE Plasma. However, there’s a big difference in how much development it enjoins.

• For Fedora Atomic, all the spins are equal~ish in regards to their development. Like, it’s not possible to point to a difference that goes beyond polish.
• On the other hand, openSUSE Aeon is in RC3 while openSUSE Kalpa hasn’t left Alpha. This is not surprising when considering that multiple people work on openSUSE Aeon and only a single developer works on openSUSE Kalpa.

There’s also a difference in how ‘immutability’/atomicity works on Fedora Atomic vs openSUSE MicroOS. Without even going over the implications thereof. But that’s out of scope for what’s intended for this comment.