I made a repo for my custom #blendOS Tracks! All tested and working. I was a little confused that you seem to need to enable your additional #Arch repos (Chaotic-aur, multilib, etc) on the Tracks that use them, instead of a parent Track. It makes sense when I think about it, though.

I need to make some fixes based on what I've learned (only my local system.yaml needs the extra repositories enabled, for instance), but they work.

If anyone else is using blendOS and they want to take a look at my ham-fisted repo, I'm happy to share a link.

I forgot to post this earlier so here it is.

I wrote a personal article on the @blendOS blog about the history of our website and to answer the question of "why Material for MkDocs?":

https://blendos.co/blog/2024/07/16/making-this-website/

P.S. This also coincided with our Google Translate beta rollout for the website.

BlendOS is a very good implementation of a declarative and atomic distro. I've used basically all others out there. And build my own BlueBuild spin. Still some rough edges, but that's to be expected for now. Not for beginners, it helps to already know your way around. A fundamental issue with all atomics: atm they are made for and used by devs (or at least tech savvy people). Let's see if they can cross that bridge into real userspace when they get there. Enjoying it anyway!
#blendOS

So I've tested Guix, NixOS, Universal Blue/Fedora CoreOS, OpenSuSE MicroOS, Nitrux, RLXOs, Moccachino Desktop, VanillaOS, blendOS in regards to immutable desktops. I happen to quite like the vast majority of them.

However, in regards to Flatpak centered ones(Fedora CoreOS and MicroOS come mostly to mind), I find them to be a bit too limiting in regards to both available packages and configuring services except the ones they provide you.

So for instance, if you want to host a #gemini service with those, you'd have to use #podman or #docker. There's nothing with either of those, but in comparison to something like #nixos or #guix, again, I find it to be quite limiting.

I find #blendos really getting somewhere with it's approach to declarative systems. I was able to use #tailscale with it quite easily without fooling around with unsupported methods!

Also, a shoutout to the #systemcrafters community which is orientated toward #guix and #emacs, they're all so awesome!

Anyways, this post didn't really have a point, but yeah, hope everyone is having a decent Monday!

Also, say hi to @blendOS, "Arch Linux made Declarative, Immutable and Atomic."

Loving the development in this space and the fact that so many atomic Linux projects are active on Mastodon!

#BlendOS is #ArchLinux made #Declarative, #Immutable and #Atomic. With #Android app support and #Fedora, #Debian, #CentOS Stream and #Ubuntu containers available, as well as system packages/DEs/kernels from Arch Linux and the #AUR.

On the fediverse at @blendOS

0n the web at https://blendos.co/

Unlike #NixOS, YAML is the primary config language.

More discussion on Lemmy: https://infosec.pub/post/13393420

Immutable Distro blendOS 4 Officially Released, Now Fully Declarative | @9to5linux

｢ the new release makes the Arch Linux-based distro fully declarative. This means that users can now install any packages, kernels, or drivers from both Arch Linux’s repositories and AUR (Arch User Repository) while using pre-configured desktop environments ｣

https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-blendos-4-officially-released-now-fully-declarative

After building the #blendos preview #docs with #materialformkdocs, we now have to build a new v4 ISO because of a pkgbuild mirror change from tar.gz to tar.zst. Rudra said he was gonna build a new ISO and has not responded since. v4 currently cannot be installed.

This is wonderful. Rudra is usually absent for a while due to school and Ubuntu Unity, but this is one of the downsides of that.

(the docs are at https://blend-docs-material.pages.dev for now if you even care)

Not impressed. There are more bugs than benefits. A purely subjective opinion

Anybody running #blendos daily, as main #distro? What's it like?

Hi all. I daily drive #nixos , but I'm wondering about these containered OS like #blendos and #vanillaOS ( @vanillaos ). First, I see that they both support nix, but has anyone had any experience? I don't see anything in the docs.

2nd I have an old 2017 macbook that I'd like to breath some new life in, but I've never been able to get linux running on it. Anyone have any experience installing either of these on a mac?

I've had linux installations go wrong before, but #BlendOS really takes the biscuit. Several minutes of scrolling text followed by a "Successful Installation" message.

Result? Completely empty disk partitions. Nothing installed at all.