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Fedora Workstation and especially Silverblue made Linux work for me in a way no distribution I have used before has been able to. Being bleeding edge yet stable

by Topfi 3y ago

Fedora Workstation and especially Silverblue made Linux work for me in a way no distribution I have used before has been able to. Being bleeding edge yet stable and reliable just made it so pleasant, coming from a mix of Slitaz, Elementary and Manjaro.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Yeah, I agree (although with Kinoite because fuck GNOME). It still has plenty of issues, but at least I don't feel like I'm constantly fighting the system just to use software.
mrtedbear 3y ago
Also switched to Silverblue and love it. Ubuntu wasn't especially bad, it was more that Silverblue made so much sense. It fixed the issues I was having with other distros where messiness would creep into my setup over time. I also tried NixOS, but it felt too rigid. Silverblue offered the same benefits of immutability without a loss of flexibility.
- howinteresting 3y ago
  Do you do development on it? If so, how do you work around Silverblue's restrictions? Curious about people's experiences.
  - mrtedbear 3y ago
    I do. I use toolboxes for pretty much all my development. I've scripted the setup each type of toolbox I use, so they can be reproduced. I use a terminal editor (neovim), but I think it's possible to run vscode from a toolbox too[1]. For graphical apps (browsers etc.) the flatpaks are very handy. The above setup means I don't really need to layer much in the OS, mainly drivers and common terminal utilities. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_questions_toolbox_vscode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_...
  - akvadrako 3y ago
    It's a great design for development since your dev environments are isolated and you can have multiple, without risking breaking your main OS. I use a combination of toolbox, distrobox, flatpak, docker, homebrew, junest and custom bwrap scripts.

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Fedora Workstation and especially Silverblue made Linux work for me in a way no distribution I have used before has been able to. Being bleeding edge yet stable

by Topfi 3y ago

AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Yeah, I agree (although with Kinoite because fuck GNOME). It still has plenty of issues, but at least I don't feel like I'm constantly fighting the system just to use software.
mrtedbear 3y ago
Also switched to Silverblue and love it. Ubuntu wasn't especially bad, it was more that Silverblue made so much sense. It fixed the issues I was having with other distros where messiness would creep into my setup over time. I also tried NixOS, but it felt too rigid. Silverblue offered the same benefits of immutability without a loss of flexibility.
- howinteresting 3y ago
  Do you do development on it? If so, how do you work around Silverblue's restrictions? Curious about people's experiences.
  - mrtedbear 3y ago
    I do. I use toolboxes for pretty much all my development. I've scripted the setup each type of toolbox I use, so they can be reproduced. I use a terminal editor (neovim), but I think it's possible to run vscode from a toolbox too[1]. For graphical apps (browsers etc.) the flatpaks are very handy. The above setup means I don't really need to layer much in the OS, mainly drivers and common terminal utilities. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_questions_toolbox_vscode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_...
  - akvadrako 3y ago
    It's a great design for development since your dev environments are isolated and you can have multiple, without risking breaking your main OS. I use a combination of toolbox, distrobox, flatpak, docker, homebrew, junest and custom bwrap scripts.