i recently thought of exactly this but with nixos instead fedora silverblue. sounds very interesting!
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Second and last question: Will it support other init systems other than systemd?
Honestly, I haven't even thought about that yet. I don't see anything speaking against using other init systems at first glance, but that's gonna be very low on my future priorities rn. If I should have some spare time after checking every mayor box then sure, I don't mind systemd but I'm also not a huge fan.
I love the idea, apart from "user applications are flatpaks". I'd love to install non flatpak applications.
Plus points for my perceived lack of AI sloppiness.
Check out the comment I just left, I implemented a solution that pacman is now completely usable so it's literally just vanilla Arch but atomic instead of being Flatpak-only!
Omg yass. I'll install this for sure.
I do plan to have a way too "unlock" it so you can for example enter a console command to be able to install packages like vanilla Arch but they still get applied atomically. I dislike Flatpaks myself so for me to use it on my main workstation, I'd have to be able to never touch a flatpak as well haha. For the average user that wants a "just works" distro like SteamOS but also some of the speed-up from CachyOS, Flatpaks seem like the most intuitive decision however.
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IIRC the CachyOS optimizations were basically a rounding error. I'm thinking of just switching my gaming PC to Fedora (and switching my Fedora Laptop to OpenSUSE maybe).
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