John

I looked for a reasonable Linux laptop for my wife and either it was European (large shipping costs) or ridiculously marked up.

She just went with a windows laptop 🤷‍♀️

I like Debian + flatpaks. 🤷‍♀️

I like the philosophy behind Debian. It’s not a corpo distro

The entire premise of this post is that people are supposedly bricking their systems, and atomic distros fix this.

My argument is that nobody is bricking their system. I will repeat it, because that’s the assumption made by op to argue in favor of atomic distros.

You are free to disagree, but at this point you are just arguing to argue.

I’m quoting the OP. His argument is that atomic distros are the future because people are out there bricking their systems.

updates that either work 100% or roll back automatically, no more “oops I bricked my system” moments

I love flatpak lol. something like debian + flatpak is win-win imo

I’m curious what you’re doing to your system that bricks it so often that would be considered a risk for a normal every-day normie user?

oops I bricked my system

I honestly can’t think of a single time I’ve done this in the 20 years I’ve been using linux.

what’s keeping YOU from switching to an atomic distro

I dunno, it just seems like the latest fad. Debian/Arch work just fine.

Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it… leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can’t fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands.

This was my experience as well … 20 years ago. I’ve not had many of these issues over the past few years using any distro. I used Debian for a couple years and now I’m on Arch. Really, it just works for me…

TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.