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My initial idea was to just literally reverse-engineer the way SteamOS does it but when I saw what a mess this was I looked at a few other distros and how Fedora Silverblue used ostree seemed the most intuitive for me to program so yeah, that's pretty much the reason haha. Are you just asking for clarification or do you think bootc has some advantages that you care to explain? Now would be the perfect time as the only machines running this are my ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and two friends on their spare laptops.
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/wtf-is-cloud-native-and-what-is-all-this/5147
https://github.com/bootcrew/mono
Very interesting, I'll take a deeper look at that tomorrow, thank you!
I'm not a dev, but bootc sounds like the way forward. Like, it has ostree baked in, so you get all of it's benefits without having to deal with the drawbacks.
On top of that, bootc is more distro agnostic. So, ideal for an Arch base. And most of all, your distro would be contributing to the community for being a bootc arch reference.