If Btrfs snapshots + Snapper would have been sufficient, then openSUSE themselves would never have desired the creation of openSUSE MicroOS (i.e. their attempt at an 'immutable' distro) in the first place.
An excellent point.
But to your earlier one, I can get the VPN client working outside of a container. There's even an RPM file from the vendor, so installing it is just as easy as installing any other package.
I appreciate the input!
That's good to know, especially the gaming part. I have tried it in the past, only briefly, and I remember enjoying the experience (older laptop, so gaming was out of the question). I'll have to throw an ISO on my thumb drive to give it another try!
Straight to the point!
Ah, now I can be excited for them and move on with my day. I get that video presentations can be great for feature releases that need visual aids, but I don't want to sit through a video for details that can be summed up in two sentences.
I like LibreWolf, but I don't like that it wipes cookies and session tokens each time you launch it. I understand why they do it, but it's a consideration outside my threat model, so it just annoys me.
I currently run Bazzite full time on an HTPC laptop, but I don't use that for work purposes at all. It's been great, and I would be a little sad if I couldn't fit Bazzite into my use case.
But I'm fully aware that my frustrations are atomic problems, and I've had no issues installing the software I need on non-atomic distros. The reason I'm so smitten by atomic distros is the fact that there's theoretically no down time. I've had distros break in the past due to some squirrely install or update, and I've never once had that issue on Bazzite.
I just recently learned that openSUSE users also have a lot of stability due to btrfs snapshots, so maybe that's really the feature I'm looking for. I don't know much about it, honestly.
Aurora is really nice, and I should see if I can get it working better in a VM to try it out. The main differences between Aurora and Bazzite that I can tell are the suites of preinstalled packages and the particular ujust recipes included.
Tailscale is probably not something I can use, unfortunately, since my employer has set up connectivity via SonicWall. I doubt they're going to allow a change just for me. 😅
Ah, that makes much more sense, now!
It's definitely not required. ProtonVPN has a flatpak client, so it's not like the client can't exist in other layers, in theory.
I may have to follow up with IT, because they have OVPN for connecting to a different domain on the network, but not this one (probably low priority to change). Perhaps they can offer a way to connect that isn't this specific client.
Ah, okay. Yeah, I only need to install OpenJDK and this client, and I don't think either of those are likely to be included in future Bazzite images, since it's gaming-focused and not development- or workstation-focused.
I may try that. They have OpenVPN for connecting to a different domain on the network, so maybe it's possible a config could exist for the one I need to connect to.