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Been using Fedora Silverblue since its release and it's absolutely the future. ostree is what everyone should be using.
Is this one of those things designed for career sysadmins/system builders only?
I think the definition should be: Installing any number of packages, then removing them in any order, at any future point(s) in time, is equivalent to never having installed them at all. This leaves some distros out, but I feel like it’s the important part of the concept.
Been using Fedora Silverblue since its release and it's absolutely the future. ostree is what everyone should be using.
I read a quora answer that estimated the Windows OS development budget at around 18 billion dollars, based on salaries. Imagine if Red Hat invested 2bn into Fedora to make it the Firefox of the desktop OS world. Just a 10% share is very significant against Microsoft.
They've come so far with so little, on the back of thousands of open source packages. That money could be used to keep those projects alive, and to sponsor them while they're being developed. Red Hat employees are already involved in a lot of them.
Been using Fedora Silverblue since its release and it's absolutely the future. ostree is what everyone should be using.
I found Silverblue to not be flexible enough for my person computers. Maybe I use Linux in a hacky way, not having write access to /usr or /bin or other folders drove me crazy about once every two weeks. For example, I was using a script written by an ubuntu user that was looking for a library with the name/location ubuntu puts it in. Fedora uses a different name for the library. My instinct here is to create a symbo…
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You may already know this but you can play most Windows games using Proton via Steam and it works really, really well.
But what about Office, Adobe , Affinity?
In the case of Nix, it sounds like it's more focused on reproduce-ability? It sounds like I should be able to take the Nix configuration file, plop it on another computer, and get the same system (except, perhaps, for /home).
Some of the others sound more like existing tools that provide snapshot/rollback capability, just with different implementations.
I think that VanillaOS and SUSE are working on similar things, but we're not an OS project, just a downstream from Fedora. Fedora's full support is underway but with what's already working perfectly our methods are already IME some of the most robust and easy ways of delivering Nvidia drivers for example.
Been using Fedora Silverblue since its release and it's absolutely the future. ostree is what everyone should be using.
For what reasons?
The other reason is snapshots, because no system is perfect. An operating system should in fact be designed around the fact that something will go wrong. Windows has had this for years, and some linux users have done it with btrfs.
But Fedora Silverblue does it seamlessly with ostree and grub, so if something does go wrong in a newly applied update, you simply choose the last working one in the grub menu and go on with your day until you have time to resolve it.
This for me to use Fedora as my daily driver is crucial.
Been using Fedora Silverblue since its release and it's absolutely the future. ostree is what everyone should be using.
I'm one year in and hell yes. I wonder if Red Hat realize what they have here. Not just in silverblue but in Fedora. I read a quora answer that estimated the Windows OS development budget at around 18 billion dollars, based on salaries. Imagine if Red Hat invested 2bn into Fedora to make it the Firefox of the desktop OS world. Just a 10% share is very significant against Microsoft. They've come so far with so little,…
Redhat could invest 200bn into Fedora or any other project, and still people won't switch to it because even if it's "better" by some arbitrary metric, it's not what people are used to.
It's definitely possible, but it looks like Linux is more likely to gain popularity via WSL than via Fedora or similar.