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So I took the plunge and installed Fedora Silverblue because of all that immutable buzz. And it's the most frustrating change I have made in almost 20 years of my distrohopping.

After installing Silverblue I configured it as usual. I installed necessary flatpaks, played with toolbox and distrobox, installed codecs, configured my bluetooth keyboard and other stuff in /etc and /var. Applied some useful tweaks I found on the web and... well... everything works. Nothing to do anymore. No issues. Nothing breaks, no dependency hell, everything runs smooth. I have nothing to tweak, tinker or configure anymore. So frustrating.

Every update is just... meh. Smooth, new, fresh system not affected by my stupid tweaking and breaking. Booooring.

I don't have to distrohop anymore. If I want other distros I can just install them in distrobox. Other versions of apps? Something from AUR perhaps...? No problem. What's the point of distrohopping now? Other DEs? I just rebase my system to other images with almost any DE or WM I want without losing data or messing everything up (damn you, UBlue!).

I don't even have to reinstall the damn thing cause every time I update the system or rebase it to another image it's like reinstalling it.

Silverblue killed distrohopping for me. Really frustrating.

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[-] flyhunter@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Installed Aurora the other day (distro based on kinoite) and could not make my bank software run... It is a "local" (ie, only used by banks in my country) software only available for Ubuntu that requires a systemd service. Tried a lot and couldn't get it to work. The service started, but the browser accused it was not installed.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

For what it's worth, I'm impressed your bank has Linux systemd support

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

In case you haven't tried that yet, maybe you could run it in a systemd enabled distrobox container.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for this. I use Distrobox a lot and did not know this.

[-] impure9435@kbin.run 3 points 3 weeks ago

Is your browser installed as a Flatpak?

[-] flyhunter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Chromium yes. But firefox was shipped with the distro, so I am guessing it is not flatpak, but not sure.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

nop, sadly, i unistalled it and installed from flatpak

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm guessing the service wants to edit something it can't edit on Silverblue. So the software is simply incompatible with your OS (as stated in the documentation)

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