Immutable distros works great when you want them exactly as they come. Anything else is a shit show IMHO.
As an example, multiple fedora based immutable distros dont have the codecs required to play YouTube videos. You have to either replace the rpm-ostree based Firefox with the flatpaks one or layer ffmpeg over the base system. Both solutions I wouldn’t expect someone without Linux knowledge to be able to do.
Layering is usually not advised as it can cause issues. You’re usually supposed to use something like DistroBox but that often does not actually work or is very convoluted. Definitely not something for newbies, which is kinda at odds with the safety of an immutable system.
Anyone know if Ublue Aurora works out of the box with a MacBook like OP has? I’ve got a 2014 MacBook Pro that I’m probably putting Linux on next year once I no longer need Mac OS.
My gaming laptop, with an Nvidia graphics card, is running Bazzite and I’ve never had any issues with it (of course, ymmv).
I think, maybe the wifi driver will not work out of box. it Most likely has the same broadcom wifi card. EndeavourOS was the only OS where wifi worked out of box. With the other, I had to either get de b43 firmware files or install the wl driver from broadcom. Wl driver seemed to achieve a more stable condition.
If it has a legacy nvidia, like mine (750m), your best bet is using nouveau driver, which comes out of box, and is mostly wayland compatible (it just worked on kde and gave this glitchfest on hyprland.
If you want dual boot like me, you have to shrink and create the new partition as fat32 in macOS first.
I’m a complete linux noob currently using Bazzite and its treated me well so far. I just web browse and game on this machine though, no professional or special requirements like some have.
Try to install Mullvad VPN. Don’t use the .rpm because if you happen to be able to install that it bricks your system. In my case that didn’t even work, luckily, but the app just won’t seem to work within a suggested DistroBox setting either. Can’t get ROCm to properly work either, which is already a pain in the ass on a regular distro.
Yeah im using bazzite as well. My 4070 is kinda causing me some headaches as the driver seems to crash my firefox constantly when using KDE which pushed me back to X11 but its been a while since I tested it out again.
Get an immutable distro. That way when you inevitably destroy it, it comes back from the dead!
(Disclaimer: I still havent tried, Im too scared, I just got the nvdia slowly blurring my screen after sleeping working again)
Inevitably???
Immutable distros works great when you want them exactly as they come. Anything else is a shit show IMHO.
As an example, multiple fedora based immutable distros dont have the codecs required to play YouTube videos. You have to either replace the rpm-ostree based Firefox with the flatpaks one or layer ffmpeg over the base system. Both solutions I wouldn’t expect someone without Linux knowledge to be able to do.
Layering is usually not advised as it can cause issues. You’re usually supposed to use something like DistroBox but that often does not actually work or is very convoluted. Definitely not something for newbies, which is kinda at odds with the safety of an immutable system.
Anyone know if Ublue Aurora works out of the box with a MacBook like OP has? I’ve got a 2014 MacBook Pro that I’m probably putting Linux on next year once I no longer need Mac OS.
My gaming laptop, with an Nvidia graphics card, is running Bazzite and I’ve never had any issues with it (of course, ymmv).
I think, maybe the wifi driver will not work out of box. it Most likely has the same broadcom wifi card. EndeavourOS was the only OS where wifi worked out of box. With the other, I had to either get de b43 firmware files or install the wl driver from broadcom. Wl driver seemed to achieve a more stable condition.
If it has a legacy nvidia, like mine (750m), your best bet is using nouveau driver, which comes out of box, and is mostly wayland compatible (it just worked on kde and gave this glitchfest on hyprland.
If you want dual boot like me, you have to shrink and create the new partition as fat32 in macOS first.
I have never tried immutable yet
I’m a complete linux noob currently using Bazzite and its treated me well so far. I just web browse and game on this machine though, no professional or special requirements like some have.
Try to install Mullvad VPN. Don’t use the .rpm because if you happen to be able to install that it bricks your system. In my case that didn’t even work, luckily, but the app just won’t seem to work within a suggested DistroBox setting either. Can’t get ROCm to properly work either, which is already a pain in the ass on a regular distro.
Yeah im using bazzite as well. My 4070 is kinda causing me some headaches as the driver seems to crash my firefox constantly when using KDE which pushed me back to X11 but its been a while since I tested it out again.