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You had me at immutable but you lost me at snaps

Shared404 6y ago
I saw someone on r/linux recently with a Fedora Silverblue install with all apps installed through Flatpak. We're getting there. Edit: CoreOS -> Silverblue. Thanks to LeoPanthera.
- lurker1928 6y ago
  Have been using Silverblue for the past few years as my daily driver. Definitely a game changer, have all of my apps installed in a toolbox or via Flatpak. Can honestly say I have never had a system this stable before.
  - turbinerneiter 6y ago
    I started using it a couple of weeks ago and while I love the idea, I still feel there is some unsolved issues. I.e. Powerline does not work that well, accessing serial ports (microcontroller programming) requires a weird hack that is not fully working. It is definitely usable and even good, but there is edge cases that ere not figured out, I feel. It needs more blog Posts, Docs, Tutorials ...
  - c0l0 6y ago
    Which troubles that you had before did turn out fixed with Silverblue for you?
- LeoPanthera 6y ago
  Isn't that Fedora Silverblue, not CoreOS?
  - Shared404 6y ago
    Yep, thanks for the fix. I don't do much in Fedora-land these days.
usr1106 6y ago
I am using Linux because it is open source. I can tinker if soemthing does not work and I can switch servers or run my own if there is an issue with the organization running the server. Without having deeply investigated myself I read the snap server is proprietary, nobody can run another instance. So nothing I want spend time on to even understand. (The client side gets some complaints, too. But without understanding the system I don't want to form an opinion, I uninstall it from the Ubuntu systems I still have.)
sp1rit 6y ago
Yeah, the funny thing is, that MicroOS is supposed to work with flatpak. It's installed out of the box and you just have to add the Flathub repo. (And on gnome you should remove libpackagekit-zypp to prevent gnome software to try to install updates via zypper) With flatpak you also don't have to engage in this wierd /snap trickery.
jcastro 6y ago
Blog author here, by default MicroOS comes with flatpaks so you can just use that as you want. You can use either one you want but keep the same base OS, as far as I can tell openSUSE is the only immutable distro that lets you do that, which I think is pretty cool.
- moistbar 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure Silverblue lets you install snapd as well.

I saw someone on r/linux recently with a Fedora Silverblue install with all apps installed through Flatpak. We're getting there. Edit: CoreOS -> Silverblue. Thanks to LeoPanthera.

lurker1928 6y ago
Have been using Silverblue for the past few years as my daily driver. Definitely a game changer, have all of my apps installed in a toolbox or via Flatpak. Can honestly say I have never had a system this stable before.
- turbinerneiter 6y ago
  I started using it a couple of weeks ago and while I love the idea, I still feel there is some unsolved issues. I.e. Powerline does not work that well, accessing serial ports (microcontroller programming) requires a weird hack that is not fully working. It is definitely usable and even good, but there is edge cases that ere not figured out, I feel. It needs more blog Posts, Docs, Tutorials ...
- c0l0 6y ago
  Which troubles that you had before did turn out fixed with Silverblue for you?
LeoPanthera 6y ago
Isn't that Fedora Silverblue, not CoreOS?
- Shared404 6y ago
  Yep, thanks for the fix. I don't do much in Fedora-land these days.

usr1106 6y ago

I am using Linux because it is open source. I can tinker if soemthing does not work and I can switch servers or run my own if there is an issue with the organization running the server. Without having deeply investigated myself I read the snap server is proprietary, nobody can run another instance. So nothing I want spend time on to even understand. (The client side gets some complaints, too. But without understanding the system I don't want to form an opinion, I uninstall it from the Ubuntu systems I still have.)

sp1rit 6y ago

Yeah, the funny thing is, that MicroOS is supposed to work with flatpak. It's installed out of the box and you just have to add the Flathub repo. (And on gnome you should remove libpackagekit-zypp to prevent gnome software to try to install updates via zypper) With flatpak you also don't have to engage in this wierd /snap trickery.

jcastro 6y ago

Blog author here, by default MicroOS comes with flatpaks so you can just use that as you want. You can use either one you want but keep the same base OS, as far as I can tell openSUSE is the only immutable distro that lets you do that, which I think is pretty cool.

moistbar 6y ago
I'm pretty sure Silverblue lets you install snapd as well.