Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?

  • mech@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    The updater downloads an updated copy of your root system and saves it next to the one you’re running.
    When you reboot the next time, the bootloader boots from that new system image.
    Userspace applications are installed as flatpaks and sit in a writeable directory.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      And “the updater” is what? A program running as [not root]? How does it have write access if nothing does?