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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Yeah, it’s part of the Universal Blue family of distros which Bazzite is part of. Technically it’s not immutable (they call it atomic), but yeah. For gui apps I just use flatpaks & appimages, for cli apps I do: brew install whatever. 99% of the time this does the trick, for that 1% which is some obscure random app I really want to try, I just use Kontainer which is a GUI for distrobox, basically it let’s me install any linux app for any distro. And for those super rare cases when I need to use a Windows app, I use Winboat which is freaking great.

    Aurora now has a live iso, you could try it without installing it and see if everything works out for you.

    In other words, it’s Fedora Kinoite with expanded hardware support, a few quality of life improvements and the trustworthyness of an immutable distro. I’ve been rocking it for more than a year, and it’s the same pure bliss of Bazzite (which I run on all my home PCs).

    I use Aurora on my work laptop, I’ve installed it in an external M2 caddy drive, so my company has the Windows drive with the license intact, and I’ve set the BIOS to boot to the M2… so my files are all on the external drive which also works as a thumbdrive on my desktop PC at home. When my IT guy said I had to change laptops, I just plugged my M2 drive to the new one and that’s it.

    Freaking great. Best experience I’ve ever had with work laptops. Plus, it’s faster than Windows. I love it so much.