FWIW, some (perhaps even most/all) uBlue derivatives actually do automatic major version updates. Though, thanks to the bootc-model, they’re dealing with a whole lot less state(/moving parts); hence smooth updates are somewhat expected. The built-in rollback functionality doesn’t hurt either.
Yup, Bazzite is one of uBlue’s images.
Thanks for the answer!
I don’t know to what degree it’s sensible to regard the following as a metric. However, it does help in putting things into perspective. My belief is that Vanilla OS is directly competing with the whole uBlue ecosystem, even if one is Debian-based and the other Fedora-based. As such, I am curious to know how the custom image ecosystem of Vanilla OS is. Like, does something like this exist for Vanilla OS? (FWIW, there was another website that made browsing through these a better experience. But, sadly, I couldn’t find it.)
My two cents: do yourself a favor and switch to one of uBlue’s images. See: https://ublue.it/
As for the why: while Fedora has put a tremendous efforts into making Fedora Atomic possible and continues to have ambitious goals regarding it, the fact that on the latest major release, a serious regression for at least one of the atomic images was not considered a blocker, showed to all of us that they aren’t as serious about it, at least at this point, as one would like or love to see.
The project has been relatively stale in the last couple of years. And I would argue that were it not for bootc and the whole ecosystem of derivatives that it has made possible, there would have been very little to be positive about (momentum-wise).
By contrast, the uBlue images are actively trying to solve issues and problems that the model has. This has led to it being a very polished experience with a great community around it that’s very actively engaged and that tries to be helpful.
All in all, take it from a Fedora Atomic user of almost four years that the uBlue side of things is definitely a whole lot greener.
To me, it seemed as if Vanilla OS lost a decent amount of momentum in their transition to Vanilla OS 2. And I’d say they’ve yet to regain what has been lost. I don’t want to sound all gloom and doom, but is it sensible to be enthusiastic about this project’s future at this point? Like, are the developers still as invested, enthusiastic and motivated as they were in the beginning?
Interesting. If you’ve used this on Linux, could you share your experience with and thoughts on it?