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I use Fedora and everything works out of the box- even Steam, Nvidia drivers from the package manager, and games. This is about Silverblue, a bespoke and immut

I use Fedora and everything works out of the box- even Steam, Nvidia drivers from the package manager, and games. This is about Silverblue, a bespoke and immutable variant of Fedora Workstation.

thinkmassive 4y ago
I’ve been running debian distros exclusively for the past few years. A few weeks back I attempted a reinstall, but I was blocked by a combo of nonfree firmware (that was incompatible w/kernel in stable) and partitioning/bootloader issues in testing. After a few failed attempts at pre-partitioning in stable, then installing from testing, I gave up and tried Silverblue. Gotta admit, the lack of driver issues out of the box was refreshing! Like any immutable distro, Silverblue has it’s quirks, but hardware support hasn’t been one of them in my recent experience.
- freedomben 4y ago
  Did you have any regular Fedora experience going into Silverblue?
  - thinkmassive 4y ago
    Yes, though I don’t recall needing any Fedora knowledge to use Silverblue. You can use toolbox containers of any distro, and if you choose Fedora really all you need to know is the package manager is dnf.
neogodless 4y ago
Thank you, I saw it was about Silverblue. It's in the title! I didn't claim Fedora (or in particular, Fedora distributions separate from Silverblue) doesn't work out of the box. I just observed what's in the shared article, which is a lot of steps to get things how they want them. As a Linux Mint user, obviously I don't know a ton about every distribution and all of the differences! (There's an implicit assumption there, that if you know a lot more, you might choose to customize a less "off the shelf" distribution, though I don't know if that is accurate!) I'm just glad my Linux installation process didn't involve all the steps that this article included to get up and running and being able to use my computer. To be sure, they have used Linux for over a decade, and like things a certain way, so their pickiness leads to a lot of the tinkering! I'm just saying, personally, I don't want to dig that deep if I don't have to. I still think it's funny that everyone is pointing out that it's about Silverblue, when it's in the title, and I didn't say anything to contradict that. What am I missing here?

I use Fedora and everything works out of the box- even Steam, Nvidia drivers from the package manager, and games. This is about Silverblue, a bespoke and immutable variant of Fedora Workstation.

thinkmassive 4y ago

I’ve been running debian distros exclusively for the past few years. A few weeks back I attempted a reinstall, but I was blocked by a combo of nonfree firmware (that was incompatible w/kernel in stable) and partitioning/bootloader issues in testing. After a few failed attempts at pre-partitioning in stable, then installing from testing, I gave up and tried Silverblue. Gotta admit, the lack of driver issues out of the box was refreshing! Like any immutable distro, Silverblue has it’s quirks, but hardware support hasn’t been one of them in my recent experience.

freedomben 4y ago
Did you have any regular Fedora experience going into Silverblue?
- thinkmassive 4y ago
  Yes, though I don’t recall needing any Fedora knowledge to use Silverblue. You can use toolbox containers of any distro, and if you choose Fedora really all you need to know is the package manager is dnf.

neogodless 4y ago

Thank you, I saw it was about Silverblue. It's in the title! I didn't claim Fedora (or in particular, Fedora distributions separate from Silverblue) doesn't work out of the box. I just observed what's in the shared article, which is a lot of steps to get things how they want them. As a Linux Mint user, obviously I don't know a ton about every distribution and all of the differences! (There's an implicit assumption there, that if you know a lot more, you might choose to customize a less "off the shelf" distribution, though I don't know if that is accurate!) I'm just glad my Linux installation process didn't involve all the steps that this article included to get up and running and being able to use my computer. To be sure, they have used Linux for over a decade, and like things a certain way, so their pickiness leads to a lot of the tinkering! I'm just saying, personally, I don't want to dig that deep if I don't have to. I still think it's funny that everyone is pointing out that it's about Silverblue, when it's in the title, and I didn't say anything to contradict that. What am I missing here?