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I like the idea of ostree but having glanced at it, as a casual/intermediate user, it didn't seem as user-friendly as, say, Docker was (which a home user can learn in an afternoon). It wasn't obvious how to get to "Debian distro deployed as an ostree snapshot".

Is this one of those things designed for career sysadmins/system builders only?

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You don't consume ostree directly like that, what happens is someone would make Debian ostree-enabled OCI images for users to consume and adapt.

https://opendev.org/starlingx/apt-ostree is one such effort to bring ostree to debian.

EndlessOS (mentioned in the article) is a Debian derivative based on OSTree, in development since around 2016 (maybe earlier).

You might find their forum (intended for end users, not much about development) or some of their repos useful:

https://github.com/endlessm

https://community.endlessos.com/

I'm familiar with endless (and their excellent team!). The current issue is that it doesn't support layering like Silverblue does via rpm-ostree.

I'd be awesome if there was a community effort around bringing the layering functionality and bootc enablement to all of Debian and then we could have our cake and eat it too!

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