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Interesting that they're going with full A/B partitions; it's a touch simpler and more resilient (ex. against disk corruption), but ex. ostree is more space efficient.

I'm also curious if there is really no way to install things on the host - is there a way to install NVIDIA drivers or the like?

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It looks like you can do it that way according to the docs [0] :

> abroot pkg add PACKAGE_NAME

Not sure what it does exactly under the hood. I'm not sure it persists after an upgrade.

In the release announcement blog post they also mention a way to build your own (base OS?) image with something called VIB [1]

Regarding space efficiency, the distribution relies on a "LVM Thin provisioning" feature. [2] I don't know enough about it (nor about ostree) to compare the two.

This is all very refreshing! Many new techs and concepts to look into :)

[0] https://docs.vanillaos.org/handbook/en/install-additional-dr... [1] https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2024-07-28/vanilla-os-2-o... (section "Make it Truly Yours") [2] https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/ABRoot#thin-provisioning

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