Aurora: The Linux-based ultimate workstation

Part of the same project as Bazzite (Universal Blue) so it's just a static Fedora with some added programs and bash scripts.

"Aurora is a paradigm shift for Linux." "Dream about the stars" "Launch a space rocket" - everything about this, down to the choice of the crudely drawn desktop wallpaper, suggests to me that this was done by very young people. If a few kids want to make themselves a "distro" like this, go for it, just don't advertise it as anything more than a simple pet project, let alone a "paradigm shift".

Who is this for? Who is the target audience? Mac users/ Windows users?

Just like the recent Bazzite post, this page is full of buzzwords, but fails to explain what it actually is. It’s an image-based Linux distro. Which is nothing groundbreaking, and a solution looking for a problem, because classic Linux distros just work.

> Aurora is nothing more than a collection of bash scripts, containerfiles and custom programs stitched together.

That sentence appearing on the same page as "rock-solid" is not very convincing either and does not instil confidence.

1) using KDE and saying this is for developers is a little strange for me considering VS Code has issues with Kdewallet 6. Has this distro done anything about that?

2) Including homebrew in a Linux distro is a criminal offense normally punished by public flogging.

What I understand as "ultimate workstation" would be a smartphone that once connected by usb-C to a monitor, becomes your computer.

Then, you don't need any other device, hence "ultimate".

Convergence, Samsung Dex, lots have tried but nothing mature yet. Well, Dex is mature but closed-source and Samsung-dependent. On the linux no-android smartphone side of things, hardware is too low-cost and the phone aspects of linux too brittle.

Aurora is just a new distro...

> Image based is the future.

While this is the direction many are going for particular use-cases (IoT in particular), I am very much conflicted.

Yes, inconsistent updates between components have caused a couple of nights of fixing my RPM or DEB based systems in my 27 years of using Linux on desktop (but mostly when I mixed sources of packages).

But at the same time, the modern systems thinking is to decouple things to be able to update and upgrade independently. Think distributed systems like web applications. This needs a change in developing components, but once internalized, both improves and speeds up the delivery.

So with traditional Linux distributions already being a mix (small packaged upgrades, but released as a collection - a "release" or "version" of a distribution), this decidedly moves in the other direction.

How does a security fix get quickly applied here? Can one do kernel livepatching? How do you quickly update a component depended on by everything else?

I suspect that the "image-based" strategy taken here is unlikely to be appealing to many members of this community.

It could be very effective for bringing in those who are not particularly computer literate under the claimed guarantee that a random update is unlikely to break the machine. But you would also need significant financial backing and marketing with strong brand recognition to inspire that kind of confidence.

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