I really want to use toolbox but for some reason or other, distrobox ends up working better, wonder if it could be included in #fedora#silverblue by default too 🤔
I kept my #GoToSocial server going for about four months. I just killed it. It was in the Oracle Cloud, and the upgrade of #AlmaLinux from 9.2 to 9.3 was taking a long time. I thought it was hanging, and I hit ctrl-c. That stopped a "scriptlet." I reran the upgrade, which said it completed. I should have know then to remove the new kernel. I rebooted, and that was it.
I hadn't yet set up backups for this server because I considered it experimental.
The uBlue Main images are the closest to the upstream Fedora experience.
You take Fedora, add hardware acceleration and codecs, Distrobox, and a few other tweaks, and you bake all of that into a new image that becomes your base instead of having to layer that on separately.
The idea is to bake in the changes that many users already do on their own!
Check out this great article from @LWN covering Bluefin! It's a good primer on Fedora Silverblue and how we're working on top of that with Bluefin's experience and tools. https://lwn.net/Articles/954059/
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Jesus fucking Christ, if users of #immutable#Linux distros aren't just the most insufferable people on the goddamned planet. The absolute epitome of the pathetic "excuse me, but I use Linux, BTW" type of "personality" that literally everyone hates.
Every possible moment they can mention it, every single thread, every fucking day.
No one, and I mean literally no one other than your little online "friends" cares about whether or not you use fucking #Silverblue or #NixOS.
I bought a larger SSD to move my laptop to #Fedora#Silverblue (might later decide to use one of the derivatives, once it's just a "rebase and try it out" operation).
Can I choose XXHASH while installing Silverblue? I'd prefer a still fast, but more collision-resistant hash than CRC32C.
If I do btrfs, then I have to decide how to do space management. I'd kind of like at least to separate space utilization for / and /home (well, /var/home on Silverblue). Maybe /var/containers too.
Is the norm to have one big filesystem with subvolumes here, or to create multiple btrfs filesystems on separate devices?
Maybe I'm being a control freak and I should just make one big filesystem for / and lean into subvolumes for snapshots?
For VMs, are qcow2 files on btrfs actually a good way to go? This is a laptop, so VMs are not normally running, I just need to spin them up occasionally.
You CAN compile and run code with the Geany "mini" IDE Flatpak if you check the "Execute Programs in the VTE" box under Preferences--Terminal.
So far I have tested C++ and Ruby, and they both work. I don't think you'll be able to add Ruby Gems, but for some simple things, it might just work (until Flatpaks can interface with Toolbox/Distrobox containers).
Bin gerade ziemlich begeistert von der Idee hinter #Fedora#Silverblue: Ein immutable Betriebssystem, das man mit Flatpak, Toolbox und rpm-ostree mit Software austatten kann. Das will ich bald mal ausprobieren. Klingt gut.
I was hoping to post on the fedora forums about an issue I've been having on my silverblue lately but unfortunately I'm getting a 504 error when I try to log in. #fedora#silverblue#internet
@stdevel
Ich finde die Idee hinter #fedora#silverblue eigentlich interessant, stand sicher schon seit einem Jahr auf meiner (immer länger werdenden) Liste von Dingen die ich ausprobieren möchte.
Heute beim „ersten Türchen“ gleich etwas wichtiges gelernt: Ich bin genau nicht(!) die Zielgruppe. 🫣
@vwbusguy I installed #Fedora#Silverblue on my sister's 2010 MacBook because Apple killed the support 5 years ago. She was skeptical because she had a bad experience with a Dell netbook and Ubuntu in 2009, after spending a day with it she was impressed: the laptop is much faster than it was with macOS, it's even easier to use, and I can do everything I need on it. No tracking is a nice bonus.
There is just a problem: it doesn't really work well currently.
If you for example try to enable the mainline copr it will fail; if you do that on Fedora workstation, you will get the latest package from the mainline-wo-merge copr, as intended. With stable-rc it works, but you get an outdated kernel.