You need to know about bootc
Published on: 2025-06-03 16:18:44
You Need To Know About Bootc
At the risk of sounding like every YouTuber out there who wants you to click the “Subscribe” button right now, I really believe everyone who cares about Linux should start learning about Bootc. When looking at the future of Linux and what that could look like there’s already a lot of talk of immutable distos like SteamOS, Fedora Silverblue, or NixOS being the future.
Starting off let me be clear, traditional distros aren’t going anywhere. They have their place and people already know and love them. Businesses rely on them. Yet people aren’t using them and we’ve been talking about “Year of the Linux Desktop” for longer than I have been alive. Immutable distros (or “Atomic” as they now like to be called) have been around for a while as well, but are relatively new in the Linux Desktop space and allow end users to be able a Linux desktop like an appliance. They can turn it on and know it will boot properly without having to worry about things users had to wo
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