Oh wow. #FedoraSilverblue major version upgrade with rpm-ostree (38 to 39) is even easier than a regular #Fedora upgrade with dnf. Who would imagine that! 🎉 #Linux#OpenSource
A neat little thing you can do in most operating systems is to enter a mathematical equation in the system’s search field and get the result back.
This also works on GNOME Shell but if it’s not working for you, go to Settings → Search and make sure that the App Search toggle switch is on at the top and that the Calculator app’s toggle switch is on under Search Results.
(For some reason, the latter was off for me on Fedora Silverblue.)
Well just update my #SteamDeck after a while of not using it and now it won't boot properly :( I was planning on taking it with me on my trip next week now I'll see what I can do to fix. I really wish steamos was base on #FedoraSilverblue or #ublue so that reverting to a working version worked and doesn't leave you with a half broken system
@gozes Depending on how comfortable you are with tinkering with your Steam Deck, you could try Bazzite. The use case is literally an alternative to SteamOS.
@dubst3pp4 Were you able to get everything you'd previously gotten from Fedora packages, from the Fedora flatpak repository? Or did you need to enable Flathub?
I ask because my biggest worry with the immutable variants is that I don't want to trade trusted built-by-Fedora packages for whatever upstream image the developers might have uploaded
@aral@destructatron Good catch and thanks for bringing it up! We'll pass this along to the Accessibility Working Group and to the folks working on the new Anaconda installer.
@destructatron Thanks for the feedback! We'll pass this along as well.
Improving accessibility on Fedora is actually one of our objectives in our five year plan for 2028. If you have more feedback, please let us know in our contributor forum and tag the DEI Team as they're the ones leading this. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/project/7
flatpak-gog¹ is a great tool, that lets you build flatpak applications from your gog purchases. Perfect for installing GOG games on Fedora Silverblue. Do you know other ways to get GOG games running on an immutable Linux?
PS. If you get the following error on Step 1: “Cannot pin staged deployment”, it just means that you already have an operating system update pending so just reboot (sudo reboot) to apply it and then carry out the major version upgrade.
(Basically, just ensure you have the latest version of Fedora 38 installed before updating to Fedora 39. Given the nature of Fedora Silverblue, that could likely be today’s version.) ;)
Here’s a list of extensions I’d recommend if you’re using GNOME. These work well under the new extension system in GNOME 45 and I wouldn’t want to use GNOME without them:
Something I don’t love about Silverblue with GNOME as it is today is that there is little visibility into ongoing OS upgrades, e.g. when rpm-ostree is pulling down a new OS deployment.
And worse, unless I am misunderstanding what is happening, it seems to also make GNOME Software seem to hang when in fact it is doing important (albeit what should be background) work.
@jorge@leaferiksen not totally the opposite; for apps I think auto-updating the world by default is great, and I think auto-downloading OS updates (respecting metered data ofc) is great as well. And I don't know that a notification is the right answer.
My underlying want is just a way to help users know what's happening if they want to know, and know when they need to reboot to actually get the latest. Because we see folks just never reboot, so they'd never get OS updates in this model.
@cassidy Hadn’t really thought about that. I guess it is a hard call whether something subtle and persistent (eg kde’s system tray restart to update button) can actually work as well as a notification.