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Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah. You can layer it like a git repo fork layers it's changes. If something breaks you can just clear that forked branch and redo it. Takes like 2 minutes to fix.

So yeah you can alter system files in a very safe way and can easily revert changes if you don't like the result. rpm-ostree reset is the command that clears all changes and resets to master. I'd recommend looking at the rpm-ostree docs for a full explanation of functionality

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems like a nice idea, I'll have a look.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

It's nice to have an undo button on terminal shenanigans!