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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good that these finally have a unified name now, rather than people just being expected to know that Fedora + [obscure mineral you probably haven't heard of] means immutable, plus having no idea of what mineral corresponds to what DE.

Silverblue and Kinoite are cool names, but really they should be renamed to Fedora Gnome (or Workstation, to line up with their standard desktop naming) Atomic, and Fedora Plasma Atomic, like they've done with Onyx >> Budgie Atomic

I understand why they wouldn't want to suddenly change the branding of existing projects though.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 years ago

I think that atomic is a way better name than immutable imo

[–] Scio@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was kinda warming up to the totally unintended slightly inconsistent mineral based naming scheme tbh. But then, hadn't fully...

[–] giddy@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm running Onyx (sorry... Fedora Budgie Atomic) on my Thinkpad and love it. Last night I decided to give Sway a shot and, when I was done with that, rolled back to Budgie without any of the cruft of installing additional DE's alongside each other.

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Right? This is one of the main reasons I love Silverblue so much: every time I wanted to test something out, it's as quick and easy as it gets.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried Fedora Sway Atomic last week. It didn’t go well.

https://urbanists.social/@markstos/111874604874920740

[–] giddy@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I had a similar experience when logging on to Sway - I had no clue what to do. Did you ever figure out how to bring up a menu or launcher? All I could do after googling was launch a terminal

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sway cheatsheet

But I went back to Plasma..

[–] giddy@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for that. Now that I know the launcher shortcut I will give it another go