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.
They are unbreakable in the same way that the Titanic was unsinkable.
This is why the Bluefin docs mention you should avoid icebergs
The upside to immutable is you can’t unintentionally change the system to break it. The downside to immutable is you can’t intentionally change the system to fix it, if it somehow does break from updates
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.
