I knew what Silverblue was and was decently certain about Kinoite, but had heard about neither Onyx nor Sericea. I think the rebranding is a smart move here for both brand recognition and searchability. I might have gone a step further and renamed the Gnome and KDE versions as well.
Beyond the naming change, I'm really excited about those projects. I strongly belive that atomicity is the way to go and believe that eventually many distributions will evolve in that direction. Right now I think the tradeoffs are already worth it, but there may be a ways to go before I'd recommend it as the default for new users. (Even if they might in particular profit from easy error recovery.)
EDIT: I want to add that the easy error recoverability that atomicity provides isn't just important for errors upstream that break one of your upgrades, it also enables much more experimentation. I have learned a lot more Linux systems because I was able to fearlessly tinker with many integral parts that I would never have touched in a traditional system for fear of having to reinstall. After all, if I broke it, all I had to to was to reboot to unbreak it!
Beyond the naming change, I'm really excited about those projects. I strongly belive that atomicity is the way to go and believe that eventually many distributions will evolve in that direction. Right now I think the tradeoffs are already worth it, but there may be a ways to go before I'd recommend it as the default for new users. (Even if they might in particular profit from easy error recovery.)
EDIT: I want to add that the easy error recoverability that atomicity provides isn't just important for errors upstream that break one of your upgrades, it also enables much more experimentation. I have learned a lot more Linux systems because I was able to fearlessly tinker with many integral parts that I would never have touched in a traditional system for fear of having to reinstall. After all, if I broke it, all I had to to was to reboot to unbreak it!