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jcastro | 7 months ago

> An OSTree based atomic system is pretty close, although there is some added complexity.

The author mentions this as well but there's no details there. We've been shipping chromeos-style images with universal blue for over 4 years and the ostree parts are invisible to end users. What do you feel takes away from the user experience?

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tapoxi|7 months ago

Thanks for your work by the way, I'm a happy uBlue (Bazzite) user.

I think my main concern is something like a known OSTree design issue around UID/GID drift, there was a bug that was partly fixed in 2023 but the issue comes from OSTree assigning known UIDs from the deployment once created, but this may not map to the proper UID on the system the deployment is being blasted to. You can get improper ownership out of this.

Not something I've ever encountered myself, but if I were developing an embedded device it seems like one less thing to worry about.

jcastro|7 months ago

Interesting, I don't think I've seen this in the wild (~30 million pulls across ublue) - but I think I've seen this issue mentioned before.

I'll bring it up during the next bootc meeting[1], which are public btw! Thanks for using bazzite!

1: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc?tab=readme-ov-file#commun...