Life & fun · December 27, 2025
An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image
i've been a big fan of fedora's atomic distros and i decided to make my own but arch based to get the best of both worlds, which is kind of funny now because it looks exactly like silverblue. is it worth it? not sure, but it's been a interesting experience – and it's usable as a daily driver if your specs match. worth noting that because of the constraints of the setup you can develop something similar on your main machine without any realistic possibility of data loss since you never really touch the bootloader or the filesystem (partitioning and so on).
An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image launched on December 27, 2025 with 12 votes, #747 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This project is an immutable, ostree-based Linux distribution built on Arch that applies principles from Fedora's atomic distros. It provides a stable system where the core filesystem and bootloader remain untouched, minimizing data loss risks during development and experimentation. The distribution functions as a daily driver for users with appropriate hardware specifications, combining Arch's package availability with immutable infrastructure benefits.
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ostree, arch linux, zen4, gnome. look ma, no package manager! - myyc/vyy
An ostree-based full fledged Arch Linux distribution, with no package manager. Basically Fedora Silverblue but with CachyOS' Zen4 packages, because we all want that 1% performance improvement. It's a largely vibe coded attempt at essentially gerrymandering a standard GNOME-based Arch Linux setup into Fedora's immutable system. And yes, it works perfectly in its current state. This README isn't written by an AI though so you can at least take it at face value. Warning : This project is work-in-progress and even though it is very usable and stable it might miss some random stuff here and there. sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/myyc/vyy-zen4:latest Reboot. bootc upgrade to update it. The kernel is…from github.com
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