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Am I overthinking it?
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As a fellow Atomic user, my completely biased opinion is that you've made a good choice of distro for switching from Windows.
Don't sweat the need or desire to layer a few packages. I see a lot of folks stress over this as if it's a hard rule they are breaking. It's a general recommendation and little more. I would be surprised if most users don't layer at least one package (or even a few).
On my main workstation, running Kinoite at the moment, some of the layered packages include:
If I understand it correctly, layering an application is no more dangerous than a regular install on a non atomic os. In other words, every piece of software you have installed on normal fedora desktop is not containerized, if it's software you were going to install anyways, layering it is the same as before (albeit significantly slower than install and update).
But that means that you get great benefits because 99% of your software packages are properly containerized
True~ish.
There's an important caveat though; for whatever reason,
rpm-ostreecan outright fail to upgrade (due to conflicts related to layered packages) while an issue like that is more rare on traditional Fedora anddnf. Thankfully, I've never had a problem that I couldn't solve withrpm-ostree resetrun on a (previously) pinned deployment (throughsudo ostree admin pin <insert number>). However, when used irresponsibly, this (i.e. layering) can outright destroy your otherwise very robust 'immutable' distro.It's easier to teach people to be cautious than to teach how they should act accordingly. Hence, uBlue's documentation tends to be more conservative in order to protect (especially newer) users from shooting themselves in the foot.
This is true, because each layered package is reinstalled every time a new compose is pulled. If you layer 100 packages, 100 packages get re-installed. Which massively slows the update process
Ah, that makes much more sense, now!