Gotta say, after a transactional OS like Fedora Silverblue where you always run the latest OS, every day, with tiny, atomic updates; downloading a 5GB file to update macOS (and having it take half an hour) feels downright ancient.

(Mind you, I believe Fedora are in the process of screwing that up – at least in the short term – with their upcoming container-based updates because, of course, the ultimate customer is enterprise¹.)

¹ gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/sig/-…

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Switch to bootable containers format by default (#2) · Issues · fedora / Fedora Atomic Desktops / SIG Issue Tracker · GitLab

rpm-ostree and ostree gained support for delivering ostree commits via OCI container images or bootable containers. The main advantage is that it makes deriving images much...

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