Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

  • spikespaz@programming.dev
    3·
    6 days ago

    It’s the most unique distro to date, and has all the strengths the others. Because it’s not a tool for building distros, and NixOS is just the posterboy.

      • spikespaz@programming.dev
        2·
        5 days ago

        Silver blue is just an OSTree implementation. NixOS is deterministic. Think of it as, the distributable for silverblue is an immutable system image. Whereas, the distributable for Nix(OS) is a blueprint for anything, including immutable system images, or something more customized. You’re also exempt from the downsides of OSTree.