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I've been using Kinoite for a couple of years now on my Thinkpad. What would you like to know?
How much did you have to adapt to the new app installing workflow? If you know what I mean
I learned quickly that installing apps the traditional way causes pretty major instability. You're basically rebasing the entire OS via ostree to install one application. After my second nuke and pave due to updates no longer working from me rebasing I took the time to learn toolbox so if a flatpak is not available I can still use an application (containerized) without altering the OS. Toolbox by default pulls in another Fedora install as the app base. I recommend using Alpine instead, much smaller and lighter.
I guess the moral of the story is learn to install applications the correct way, or just don't use an immutable OS
Noted haha I'll think about if I want to use Kinoite, Nix is first place rn I think haha
If nearly all of your gui apps are available as a flatpak, it's simple to adapt. While I was using Silverblue I set my terminal up to launch directly into a distrobox, which gave me a regular container to install apps with a regular package manager (e.g. pacman in my case).
If I used Silverblue today I'd use the Nix package manager (with home manager) to install all my cli apps.