Move Secureblue under the Fedora Atomic Desktop Entry

I think we should move the Secureblue section to be under section on Fedora Atomic Desktops in the Desktop OS article.

Right now, both the sections on Anonymity-Focused and Security-Focused distributions are for very specific use-cases and not what most people would want from a general purpose OS. From my experience with Secureblue and the projects goals, it’s clear it is meant to be an system for general, everyday use. I propose we style Secureblue similarly to how Arkenfox is presented in the Firefox entry.

I think this also highlights one of the appeals for Fedora Atomic in that it can be retooled so easily, and might better contextualize what technologies Secureblue is built on.

Might I also suggest merging Traditional and Atomic distros together as general purpose distros then make Fedora Linux and Fedora Atomic Desktops one entry?

Making Fedora Workstation and Fedora Atomic a single entry doesn’t make much sense (in my opinion) as there are still a few user facing functionality differences between atomic and traditional Linux distros. Merging the recommendation in this way could lead to unnecessary confusion.

As far as Secureblue goes i can see the vision of it being a simple and secure Linux distro for everyday use; however at this time it feels like there is still to much user intervention required (fixing issues with hardened_malloc and user namespaces) on a per app basis for it to be recommended as a general (granted atomic) Linux distro.

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I agree with @seize here. This is out of scope for what I had in mind and I think condensing them would make it more confusing. You could make a solid argument for moving the Atomic distros to the top but they are functionally different.

I don’t think Secureblue should necessarily be recommended in that list of Atomic distros, but in the same way we currently list Firefox, then Arkenfox as a subsection with the warning that it will cause breakage. This is especially relevant as we don’t have to repeat that the project is based on Fedora Atomic and highlights a benefit to OSTree based systems.

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