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Atomic Linux distributions (often called "immutable" distros) are a modern breed of operating system designed to be more reliable, secure, and maintainable than traditional Linux distributions. See chat with Gemini .
Some Good Atomic Linux Distributions
- Universal Blue
- recommended
- based on Fedora Atomic distributions
- Fedora Atomic
- personally prefer Fedora Kinoite
- AerynOS
Package Managements for Atomic Linux Distributions
See chat with Gemini .
- Core OS
- Fedora Atomic: rpm-ostree
- AerynOS: moss
- GUI applications
- flatpak
- snap
- Distrobox / Toolbx
- GUI applications might fail to launch
- Virtual Machine Manager
- based on KVM, great performance
- the ultimate (but heavy) solution
- CLI utilities
- Homebrew
- Distrobox / Toolbx
- Dev environment
- Podman
- Docker