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    Don't make a mistake in choosing a distro (lemmy.world)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Neat! I was just thinking, if it starts updating the kernel as you turn it off, you'd have to wait a minute for it to finish. M$ style. Has that never happened?

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    No. That's not how it works. It installs a new image alongside the current one and once you boot again it simply boots into the new image. Never ever wait for an update again.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Oh right, atomic distros work differently, didn't think about that! That is convenient!

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Very convenient because if something happens where the update breaks something, you can just boot the previous image.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Does it give you a choice at startup, similar to the Grub menu, or do you have to do something to bring the option up?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    That looks really handy, thanks :)

    I've just downloaded Fedora Kinoite to try with my Ventoy drive (I refer the KDE layout :) )

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    For even less pain try a ublue variant (Aurora or Bazzite probably for KDE depending if you game). No faffing around with codecs and RPMFusion etc...

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    Nope thats exactly how it works, gives you an entry in grub for the prior image.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    Literally is the grub menu...