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I hear silverblue is worth a look

_lvbh 2y ago
Daily drove silverblue for a year as a developer. It’s not worth it. A lot of things don’t work and it’s not as hackable. Perhaps for normal use it’s fine. Now using Fedora Workstation. I like it but Fedora 40 isn’t very stable (gnome stuff crashing).
- jasomill 2y ago
  As another data point: I used Fedora Silverblue for a couple years, switched to Kinoite (Silverblue - Gnome + KDE) without reinstalling a couple months ago, and updated to 40 last week, and everything seems to be working fine. While I can't vouch for Gnome, the only KDE migration bug I noticed was that the update slightly rearranged the items on one of my custom panels and reset my desktop wallpaper (the latter may not be a bug). As for development/hackability: you need to understand ostree, rpm-ostree, and flatpak fundamentals, not be afraid to layer packages where containerization is impossible or inconvenient, and accept that cookie-cutter configuration recipes intended for other distros aren't likely to work. I'd also recommend distrobox over the bundled toolbox for managing distro environment containers, because useful additional features. With all that said, I've been using Silverblue+Kinoite daily as a development (Linux + Windows in libvirt-managed VM) system for over a year without no regrets whatsoever, and only trivial complications (e.g., running a trivial shell script to rewrite JetBrains Toolbox-created .desktop files so JetBrains IDEs run in my preferred distrobox container when launched via GUI). As a shout-out to another Fedora immutable distro, I've also switched to Fedora CoreOS for new home office network service deployments and this has been similarly pleasant and hassle-free.
- brian_cunnie 2y ago
  Fedora 45?! Dang, I only upgraded to Fedora 40 but days ago.
  - _lvbh 2y ago
    I meant to type 40. Typo lol
- logicprog 2y ago
  > It’s not worth it. A lot of things don’t work and it’s not as hackable. Can you give some examples? I've been using Universal Blue's silverblue-nvidia extremely happily for a couple months now, and haven't had any issues with it. It's been a great and extremely smooth experience
  - _lvbh 2y ago
    My problems were largely with SDR/radio software. Some things also just don’t work well in containers which require real root access.

Daily drove silverblue for a year as a developer. It’s not worth it. A lot of things don’t work and it’s not as hackable. Perhaps for normal use it’s fine. Now using Fedora Workstation. I like it but Fedora 40 isn’t very stable (gnome stuff crashing).

jasomill 2y ago
As another data point: I used Fedora Silverblue for a couple years, switched to Kinoite (Silverblue - Gnome + KDE) without reinstalling a couple months ago, and updated to 40 last week, and everything seems to be working fine. While I can't vouch for Gnome, the only KDE migration bug I noticed was that the update slightly rearranged the items on one of my custom panels and reset my desktop wallpaper (the latter may not be a bug). As for development/hackability: you need to understand ostree, rpm-ostree, and flatpak fundamentals, not be afraid to layer packages where containerization is impossible or inconvenient, and accept that cookie-cutter configuration recipes intended for other distros aren't likely to work. I'd also recommend distrobox over the bundled toolbox for managing distro environment containers, because useful additional features. With all that said, I've been using Silverblue+Kinoite daily as a development (Linux + Windows in libvirt-managed VM) system for over a year without no regrets whatsoever, and only trivial complications (e.g., running a trivial shell script to rewrite JetBrains Toolbox-created .desktop files so JetBrains IDEs run in my preferred distrobox container when launched via GUI). As a shout-out to another Fedora immutable distro, I've also switched to Fedora CoreOS for new home office network service deployments and this has been similarly pleasant and hassle-free.
brian_cunnie 2y ago
Fedora 45?! Dang, I only upgraded to Fedora 40 but days ago.
- _lvbh 2y ago
  I meant to type 40. Typo lol
logicprog 2y ago
> It’s not worth it. A lot of things don’t work and it’s not as hackable. Can you give some examples? I've been using Universal Blue's silverblue-nvidia extremely happily for a couple months now, and haven't had any issues with it. It's been a great and extremely smooth experience
- _lvbh 2y ago
  My problems were largely with SDR/radio software. Some things also just don’t work well in containers which require real root access.