literally just learned of it through some random reddit comment (the comment was about how it really fixes issues with AMD gpu drivers).
good? trustworthy? pros and cons? good for first linux os?
i’ve been lazy and have been riding out my windows 10 extension but this actually seems really easy with clear instructions to set up a dual boot and slowly hand over more of my hdd space to it. also seems pretty secure, open source, etc but i just want to make sure it’s not sus
Theoretically, atomic distros are ‘more limited’ because they do lock down certain directories. I don’t usually see people who have any specific cases when this actually affects them though. You can still break your install messing around if you try really hard. You can still do development (but primarily in containers).
I think the ‘learning’ someone would do on a regular distro typically means how to solve common issues that atomic distros solve for you. Like a lot of people have trouble installing Nvidia drivers, which are just already present on the image with 0 extra steps. In your example, you probably had some missing or old drivers because Mint lags behind on updates.
I use a fedora atomic distro and sometimes it’s annoying but that’s mostly because I do development and have to run my compiler toolchain in a container. I like that it’s not going to randomly break one day, whether through my fault or the maintainers’.