There was a pretty old discussion about this topic, I just want to bring it up again:
immutable rpm-ostree based Fedora needs a common name!
I would propose to use “Atomic Fedora” as this sounds good. But other not-complicated but descriptive names could just as well be used. But as these Distros really rise, its so important that they get a common name! I dont want to write “Kinoite/Silverblue” ever again, but noone knows what “Atomic Fedora” is and its not officially named like that.
I would completely leave the “subdistros” out of that naming. Kinoite, Silverblue, Sericea, CoreOS all work fine. But starting with a common name would be soo good. Also, not hiding these distros in the background and again promoting just GNOME would be appropriate for @siosm 's great work too.
just putting CoreOS in here along, even though it may make sense to exclude it, I dont think it should be excluded though, as currently “what to choose? Server, Cloud, CoreOS?” is a confusion I can imagine
I do think we should unify the branding for our immutable desktop variants.
Fedora CoreOS has a completely different initial setup, as well as enough differentiation in use, that I think we’d get more confusion if we branded the immutable desktops as “Fedora Core [DE]”. Fedora CoreOS’ branding should be kept separate from the immutable desktop variants, I think.
Bringing back the old “Fedora Atomic [DE]” though, is something I support.
Recently, at the Fedora Flock(?), someone mentioned that they wanted Fedora to do release naming again, involving the community. I support that as well.
Maybe finding a common name/brand for our immutable desktop variants could be a good application of such a community-based naming process?