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> personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn't give me any grief, the bulk of my s
by javert 2y ago
> personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn't give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copying my 500mb rootfs into a tmpfs
I'm assuming this is for a personal use computer. Can you talk more about the setup here? Sounds interesting. If the OS is immutable, where do you store personal data and how do you perform updates?
- zoobab 2y ago"If the OS is immutable, where do you store personal data" In a mounted folder. "how do you perform updates?" You use another image.
- intelVISA 2y agoAnd thus a new mind was awoken.
- javert 2y agoThis is patronizing. Especially since the response was tautological. You should not assume that I know nothing.
- javert 2y agoI was interested in a little more detail. Is the home directory on another USB, or maybe a laptop's built-in SSD? To add new software, is he creating a new custom image every time? Is this practical as a daily driver?