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ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning
Quoting: ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning —
Sometimes it works; sometimes the distro disappears in six months. What you don’t often see, however, is a distro trying to rethink how updates, rollbacks, and system integrity fundamentally work.
ObsidianOS is one of those unusual projects that immediately caught my attention for exactly that reason. It’s Arch-based, yes, but the defining feature isn’t Arch at all; it’s the implementation of an A/B partitioning layout using good old ext4, not btrfs, snapshots, or any of the usual suspects.
I’ll admit, when I first heard about ObsidianOS, I had the same confused grin many Reddit users did: “Wait… A/B partitions? On a traditional Linux desktop? Without btrfs?” But after digging into the documentation, installing it on a virtual machine, and exploring it for a bit, I walked away genuinely impressed!