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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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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had an entirely different experience with Bazzite. It would not boot to Wayland after an update, so I had to boot to xorg, reboot, and then wayland would work, until the last update where Wayland just wouldn't work anymore, so I ended up going back to Fedora Workstation.

[–] root@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bazzite has been smooth sailing about 80% of the time for me. The rest of the 20% were due to either plasma or runner crashing, requiring me to perform a hard reset using the power button. And then it magically atarted working again. I've also had my home folder become read-only on occasion. Very strange.

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[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago
[–] AceLucario@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I don't fully understand how silverblue and kinoite are different, but I feel this way with base Fedora KDE. I've never broken it even a little bit when that used to be common with Ubuntu based distros for whatever reason.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Only thing I haven't figured out, yet, is how to install the Private Internet Access client. It uses a .run install script, and it fails when installing via rpm-ostree (tries to write to /etc) and doesn't like being installed in a Distrobox (needs systemd).

But yeah, I'm currently looking at some other options for my main system to drop Windows, and I'm always comparing to Fedora Atomics, now.

[–] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, third-party Linux VPN clients are pretty screwed on silverblue, and probably always will be. Especially since when installed in a container, they require being ran in a rootful container with selinux labeling disabled to enable direct access to /dev/net/tun, and as you’ve quickly found out, most of those weird bash based installers haven’t adapted. It’s best to use generic VPN configs through your DE atm.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t use PIA, but /opt and /etc are both r/w in Silverblue/Kionite

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you can unlock the file system, don't remember how tho

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[–] The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you can unlock your /usr with rpm-ostree usroverlay

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[–] flyhunter@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] impure9435@kbin.run 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is your browser installed as a Flatpak?

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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months 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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[–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you still install extensions in GNOME? I hate the defaults

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes but only from Gnome directly with an app called extensions manager. You can't install them from the Fedora repo.

[–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago
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