Fedora SilverBlue first try

I spent some time trying out Fedora SilverBlue today. That is a version of Fedora the has an immutable system install. You install apps on top of the system as Flatpaks or containers so you aren't modifying the base system itself.

I had installed it on a Zima Board PC which has a lower powered Celeron with 8GB RAM. I did this last month, so when I fired it up again today there was a system update available. I ran the upgrade via command line and it went well, though the percentage completed kept going up then down again as it kept finding new dependancy packages it needed.

I then installed Vivaldi browser, which took about 45 minutes because there is no Flatpak available and I had to figure out how to create a new container to install it into the old fashioned way with dnf. Then I had to setup the .desktop file correctly to show in KDE and launch properly inside the container. But finally I have success!

I installed GIMP which is a Flatpak, poked around to see what other apps are offered and there seem to be quite a good number. The ones listed in the "Discover" app manager are all Flatpaks I beleive.

So overall it was a very interesting experience. I will keep this around and play with is some more. I wouldn't want to switch over yet, I did experience a few KDE crashes and you can't pin a containerized app to the task manager. But it certainly is usable with a little extra learning and effort.

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2023-10-07 · 7 months ago · 👍 moddedBear, bumpsh

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🚀 bumpsh · Dec 21 at 08:02:

I daily drove silverblue for a long time, distrobox is a life saver