How can rebasing between desktop enviornments cause issues

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I wrote an article here that helps summarize what happens during rpm-ostree update. The same logic applies for rebase operations.

Please note that /home is a symlink to /var/home so pay attention to the pieces describing /var.

Did You Know? How ostree update merges changes into etc and var

Did You Know? How ostree (rpm-ostree) update merges changes into etc and var As I continued my deep dive into bluefin, I realized that changes being made to the bluefin bootc image did not appear to handle deletion of files other than to not include them in the image. This made me wonder, what happens to the files in the read-write filesystems of an existing install? ostree Filesystems The /etc and /var directories are the only writeable dirs (according to Atomic transitions between parallel-i…