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  • Yes, you’d use rpm-ostree install on some downloaded RPM after adding the repo manually in /etc for updates later (they really make it painful because layering system packages should always be a last resort).

    You’re doing things correctly already. If everything is working fine with all the applications installed in a containerized way (distrobox, flatpak, etc.) no need to mess with rpm-ostree.

    100% I was in the same boat as you with the yearly Ubuntu refreshes, and that got so old. Now if there’s an update the breaks something I just rollback and pin the working version until there’s an update that works or I have time to troubleshoot the issue.


  • It’s not so much that you can’t change parts of your system permanently. Think of it more so like the system partition of the OS is versioned like it’s a git repo. Each time you make a change to the OS filesystem the change is written to a new version of your OS that is layered onto the previous version, and then those changes are commited to the filesystem store, and a new boot entry is created.

    So it’s a slightly more involved process to install new/update system packages (you have to reboot into the new version of the OS for the changes to take effect), but you gain a massive advantage in stability as a result (if the new version fails to boot or has other unexpected behavior, just reboot into the old, known working version).

    Edit: I’m using Bazzite on two devices btw