Background
I like to develop on the same platform I use for deployment. Most of the time that is Linux. But while my Mac and Windows using coworkers were busy shipping, I often ended up with a workstation loaded with unofficial PPA's that broke every few months and developer tooling that's miles behind macOS.
November 2022
When my buddy Jorge Castro reached out to show me a demo of his Fedora Silverblue concept "Universal Blue" I was skeptical.
Fedora has nothing for me, why would I want to learn how to administer an RPM based system when I have all this time invested in Debian derivatives??
Through patience and persistence Jorge showed me that I was looking at it the wrong way. The whole point of Universal Blue and the Bluefin derivative is that the burden of administration almost disappears. Don't get me wrong, it's still Linux, but it's not the Linux you've used elsewhere. Let's explore the differences:
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OSTree Based: Effortless Rollbacks
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~ instead of /: $HOME and /etc are writable. Users are encouraged to install applications using tools that don't write to the root filesystem.
