No offense taken, but I didn’t use btrfs snapshots in a minute and spent 200 hours in the last 18 days working on my distro with a little less than adequate sleep due to my ADHD keeping me awake, thinking about what to implement next. Please cut me some slack haha

True, if you set it up out of the box with CachyOS it rolls the entire disk back, but I forgot that option was a thing, my bad!

‘Oh come on!’ was my initial reaction, but I’ve read your website, and thought: ‘hey, that sounds nice!’

Haha, I know I know, yet another Arch-based distro in this economy, but I really feel like this does fill a gap, thank you for your interest!

On the other hand, perhaps the distros like this are meant to be installed by someone skilled to then be used mostly unattended by a regular user.

My aim is to make this both appealing for the normie who just wants to use it like “SteamOS but with CachyOS speed” and run Flatpaks on it AND for the more experienced user who wants all the benefits of Arch but with a little more peace of mind.

how would you know what’s a working state, so you need to return to the previous one?

As the website explains, it automatically falls back to the last working state if it doesn’t boot, but obviously it can’t detect if something is messed up but still booting like in your example. In that case you just reboot and manually select the last working state (wip but kinda working already) just like a BTRFS snapshot, BUT it only rolls back the system itself, NOT your files. A BTRFS snapshot will also roll back your documents or whatever so my system, when it’s stable and tested, will be superior in every way to BTRFS snapshots.

I’m making my own distro rn, announced it a week ago here and will likely release today or tomorrow! https://pu-239.org/ https://lemmy.ml/post/52307735

Nice comprehensive overview of why this piece of slop called a “distro” and its backers should be boycotted, thank you! Gives me even more motivation to finish up mine today.

Mal sehen, GitHub war das letzte Big Tech, bzw. USA-basierte was ich genutzt habe und war mir deswegen schon seit langem ein Dorn im Auge, bisher habe ich aber nie die Nerven gehabt zu wechseln. Jetzt war aber der beste Zeitpunkt, da das Hauptrepo noch leer war und ich meine restlichen Projekte aussortiert habe. Die kompilierten Pakete und ISOs kommen eh alle auf meinen Hetzner Webserver, Codeberg hätte quasi “nur” den Source-Code, sollte also verträglich genug sein und GitHub einfach komplett zurückzulassen!

Yeah, it’s a shame that consumer hardware has gotten this expensive, but compared to the cost of other alternatives the B70 is a fantastic deal, especially at the old price. Cyberpunk 2077 still runs at 100fps at 3440x1440p with max settings RT off, Qwen3.8-27B at UD-Q6_K_XL with 131k context runs at up to 35tok/s TG and 900tok/s PP with my llama.cpp-sycl AUR package.

I took your suggestion to heart and decided to say fuck it and move my whole GitHub over to Codeberg. The non-profit nature, being hosted in Germany where I’m also from and ditching the last Microslop service I have make this something I should have done sooner. The only thing left is the repo for the website itself, I’m gonna set up the actions to automatically sync it with Hetzner tomorrow, I’m done for today!

I took your suggestion to heart and decided to say fuck it and move my whole GitHub over to Codeberg. The non-profit nature, being hosted in Germany where I’m also from and ditching the last Microslop service I have make this something I should have done sooner. The only thing left is the repo for the website itself, I’m gonna set up the actions to automatically sync it with Hetzner tomorrow, I’m done for today!

Nice to hear! It might be the case that you will have to do some tinkering at first, but I would really appreciate any info I can get so I can get this to be stable as fast as possible!

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Silently working around a problem is how you end up with a system no longer set up the way you think it is.

It’'s not working around the issue, it’s just refusing to update. You shouldn’t need to manually rollback a system that doesn’t boot. And you shouldn’t need to manually troubleshoot or fix it either. Just report the failing update and wait for it to be fixed.

Jup, I think that explains my point perfectly, thank you!

The point of most atomic distros is that it’s set up for you. If you want to manually investigate around and work around the issue yourself, then an atomic distro is probably not for you.

I’d add to this that my distro will just spare you the time to unfuck your system. What you do about the fact that the update failed is still up to you to figure out, but at least you start the figuring out process in your damn DE. That in no way is “silently changing how your system works”, that’s literally just saving you time by doing something that you would have to manually do yourself if it was even a possibility.

Honestly, I haven’t even thought about that yet. I don’t see anything speaking against using other init systems at first glance, but that’s gonna be very low on my future priorities rn. If I should have some spare time after checking every mayor box then sure, I don’t mind systemd but I’m also not a huge fan.

Thank you! Yeah, especially at the start you are bound to make a few errors but after a while it becomes smooth sailing. Regarding the burnout, I have autism and if it interests me and I use it for myself I will likely never burn out from it, I’ve put about 100 hours into this the last 12 days and I hate going to bed today instead of testing more on my ThinkPad haha

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Very interesting, I’ll take a deeper look at that tomorrow, thank you!

Fuck no

Very simple reason: you won’t even notice that something broke since the distro will fall back onto the previous version automatically

I actually got it for 1249€ the same month it released! I’m super happy with it, worth every penny.

Yeah I get you, recently with everyone vibe-coding their stuff, there have been a lot of useless distros, but I really feel like I’m onto something useful. I’m self employed and basically temporarily took on less orders so I can work on this full-time until I get the first version out and actual full on development turns into maintaining and improving. I can definitely manage it and actually look forward to it as it’s super fun to me! Also I used today to make some changes as you can read in the comment I just left.