sodalite VS ublue

Try Fedora Sodalite instead. It is Fedora(fresh drivers) Silverblue(immutable base) with Pantheon Desktop Environment (from elementary) https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite

For the Pantheon desktop environment, I'd instead recommend Fedora Sodalite.

Have you tried sodalite?

Someone could make a variant based on phosh, similar to how Sodalite (Silverblue except with Pantheon) was made

SWAY https://github.com/martinpitt/ostree-pitti-workstation PANTHEON https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite CINNAMON https://pagure.io/fork/beatlink/workstation-ostree-config/tree/main

unofficial Pantheon variant - https://github.com/sodaliterocks/sodalite

Nowadays I'm told GNOME Shell is very usable with all the extensions that are available. And Fedora Silverblue is one of the most technically interesting distros I've seen in a while. I'm strongly considering testing that out whenever I get a new laptop, either with the default GNOME desktop or with Sodalite, which aims to bring the Pantheon desktop to Silverblue.

I'm wondering if this is where Silverblue, in the future, could come in. Recently, I saw a post about something called Sodalite, which brings the Pantheon desktop to any OSTree version of Fedora. To install it, you need to use the command line and rebase to it, and then you can use the Pantheon DE. Admittedly, the Github page says it's not a super clean experience.

I myself use Fedora Silverblue with a https://ublue.it/ -based custom image, and I use home-manager for shell configuration. Sure, my GNOME layout isn't declarative, but basically everything else is. Pair that with one of the best NVIDIA driver experiences and the strong feeling of stability, it's better than most other Linuxes rn.

Take a look at ublue.it

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of immutable systems. You still have full control over what’s on your computer, you just don’t exercise that control by making irreversible changes to your core system while it’s running. You can use e.g. rpm-ostree, or even better, build a custom image with exactly the changes you want that updates and ships directly to your computer whenever you want it to.

Have you considered the Sericea(Sway) immutable Fedora spin at ublue.it?

Have you considered the nvidia images at ublue.it? They make silverblue and nvidia easy.

Try the ublue images, they have one for deepin. It’s a variant on fedoras immutable silverblue image, you could either use their iso on http://ublue.it or install silverblue and rebase to the deepin image via:

ublue.it

This is indeed a blind spot. Thanks for pointing that out! Silverblue -to my knowledge- doesn't do a lot to address this. Though, 3rd-party tools like Home Manager and the suite of applications developed by the folks over at uBlue might be able to limit this to a minimum. Though I'm not sure if it surpasses NixOS in this regard; for the uninitiated. Though, to my knowledge, this requires special attention and depends on the specifics of the NixOS system in question.

This hasn't been for nought as even openSUSE's Aeon (and all their immutable offerings) ship Distrobox instead. Vanilla OS also ships Distrobox instead of Toolbx. Heck, even the folks over on uBlue\1]) always mention Toolbx with Distrobox and vice versa. And it wouldn't surprise me if most of them prefer to use Distrobox instead.