that would be fun and easy to use but that would mean no neofetch no terminal games no ls no vim no flatpak sadly would that be a good distro? i know about chromeos and android and i know linux users don’t usually recognize those as linux distros but i do honestly

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You mean you want to create a graphical init that starts no VTE as fallback?

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Fedora Silverblue does have a terminal, but you don’t need it.
It updates by pushing the update button in the software center.
Your programs are installed as Flatpak (no idea where you get the idea that that isn’t possible without terminal). You search for them in the software center and click install.
It’s actually pretty limiting because you can’t use the terminal the way you’re used to.

Anyway, it exists. And it is a good distro, if that’s what you’re looking for.

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no flatpak

Erm, no? There are many GUI Software managers with Flatpaks Integration, for example GNOME software or KDE discover

which would just tell you when no update

About every major non diy distro does that

that would be fun and easy to use

For me at least it wouldnt be. If you dont want the terminal, just use something like mint, it has a GUI for everything you need

Also, why have no terminal? Its always a good backup for if you GUI stops working, and if you want GUIs for everything, that dosent mean the terminal has not to be there

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Thanks to image-based distros like Fedora Atomic, I skipped the asking to update step. They download and apply updates in the background, and then the new image gets selected on next boot.

Given Fedora doesn’t do major changes in point releases, nothing breaks (until I do a manual upgrade to a new (half-)yearly major release).

Not having a terminal does not make sense (unless in a business context). For some people (my mum) it’s as if it doesn’t exist anyway, so why remove it.

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I wouldn’t like that, no sir, I wouldn’t like that at all!

Too many useful tools on the terminal.

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