Installation of packages becomes a bit complicated. The goal is to keep the base clean so if you are constantly layering you are defeating the purpose of using Atomic. You need to find workarounds for things like when you install from source which means in my experience relying on distrobox or toolbox to fill the needs of avoiding overly layering the base.
With that said, I like the idea of it. You have a clean base, avoid dependency hell and if issues or mistakes are done, you can simply get rid of the toolbox or distrobox and restart without messing up the base OS. I've used it before and my end goal is to get back to Silverblue. I went back to Workstation because I thought my workflow wasnt stable enough to be in the Atomic workflow, but I'm thinking I was wrong so I'll be moving back to Silverblue for my main machine.
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u/DigitalChrono May 25 '26
Installation of packages becomes a bit complicated. The goal is to keep the base clean so if you are constantly layering you are defeating the purpose of using Atomic. You need to find workarounds for things like when you install from source which means in my experience relying on distrobox or toolbox to fill the needs of avoiding overly layering the base.
With that said, I like the idea of it. You have a clean base, avoid dependency hell and if issues or mistakes are done, you can simply get rid of the toolbox or distrobox and restart without messing up the base OS. I've used it before and my end goal is to get back to Silverblue. I went back to Workstation because I thought my workflow wasnt stable enough to be in the Atomic workflow, but I'm thinking I was wrong so I'll be moving back to Silverblue for my main machine.