I am using Fedora Kinoite for a year now. It is finally the stable desktop Linux experience I was looking for. The limitations people are constantly talking about really don't seem like a big deal to me. For everything not available as a Flatpak there is distrobox and there is always layering as an escape hatch.
I’m in the process of installing Kinoite, and the installer is awful. There are two different manual partitioning tools and one automatic one, none of which work well at all.
For some reason, immutable Linux distros seem to struggle with the idea that a single physical disk might contain both volumes owned by the distribution and persistent volumes owned by the user that are not managed by the distro. Last time I checked, Talos was basically unusable on a single-disk system if you want persistent volumes.
Sadly, most M.2 NVMe devices don’t seem to support namespaces, which would otherwise be a decent way to kludge around this problem.
I don't understand half of the stuff you just wrote. I just selected the SSD in the installer and told it to install the OS. Why make things more difficult?
Because I want a data partition that I can keep if I decide to switch to a different distro. Or because I already have a data partition I want to keep. Or because I’m doing something that requires some space backed by a different filesystem.
Most old distros can do things like this with no particular difficulty. But the Kinoite installer (which is presumably the same as the Silverblue installer) is half-baked and buggy.
