Post by @doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml

2026-10-11 14:33 UTC

If immutable distros are so unbreakable, why are both my ostree branches broken? I decided to try out Bluefin, and it worked pretty well for 6 months. Then an update broke both the ostree branches somehow. Just black screens instead of finding/mounting root. It seems like something that could be fixed with the grub config, but I thought the point of an atomic distro was that an update wouldn’t break it. So I reinstalled debian instead of figuring out what happened with bluefin. I also hated having to restart after every update.

Replies (3)

@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-11 14:35

They are unbreakable in the same way that the Titanic was unsinkable.

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@mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-11 16:05

We have been using Aurora, Bluefin, and Bazzite in our household for about a year and a half and have yet to have an issue on any of them. Aurora is installed on our shared desktop and laptop. Bazzite is installed on a gaming handheld and a gaming PC, and my wife uses Bluefin on her ThinkPad. They are the most issue-free Linux installs I’ve ever had. I just remind everyone to reboot at least monthly. Of there is a security fix, I make sure everyone reboots sooner. I do run plain Fedora on my laptop because I don’t like being tied to Flatpaks but I do think immutable or atomic is the best for less experienced users.

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@j0rge@lemmy.ml 2026-10-11 15:39

Hi I work on bluefin, it’s impossible to tell what the problem is without reading the error you received. We don’t claim it’s unbreakable (or immutable) it just means you have a better chance of an upgrade working that day vs. what it replaces. There’s still tons of places for things to go wrong, boot loader, etc. If you have the error log somewhere I can take a look.

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