If you're new to the blog I'll give you the quick TLDR: Most traditional desktop linuxes aren't reliable enough to be suitable for consumer usage, but immutable models like Silverblue are seen as too rigid to be customized to what people want. Ironic isn't it, the entire thing is designed…
Ooooh I just had to pick a saucy title. Thanks to Josh Stone and Alex Diaz we now have a working Nvidia image of Fedora Silverblue. We've hopefully just removed a whole pile of jank from your setups: by moving the driver building process to the cloud we can now…
Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, openSUSE MicroOS, EndlessOS, and VanillaOS ... it certainly is an exciting time on our journey towards more reliable Linux desktops! Each of them take different approaches to moving towards a more zero-trust/cloud-native approach to the desktop. Fedora and EndlessOS are all in on ostree, openSUSE is using…
While moving to an image based operating system has been a gamechanger for me it's important to remember that if it's doing it's job it's invisible. My graphical applications are already handled by Flatpak, so I thought I would take some time investing in modernizing my command line workflow. Toolbx…
It's been over a year since Asteroid Linus Tech Tips hit the Linux desktop, and I'm happy to report that the move to image-based desktops is making some amazing progress! Recently some things have been landing in Fedora that have enabled me to remove more fragility from the client. Currently,…
With Fedora 37 on the cusp of releasing I thought I'd also check in on openSUSE's MicroOS. The team has been been working diligently on improvements over the course of the year. I thought now would be a nice time to compare and contrast them directly. I have been using…
I made a video on how I use distrobox on my desktop, and over time as more and more people have been discovering the value of a cloud-native desktop it's starting to gain some attention! Since SteamOS is an image-based OS right of the bat (must be nice to start…
There's lot of options when it comes to desktop linuxes. You might be looking for which one has the best desktop or window manager you like, or some cool feature you can't get anywhere else, or maybe the people you hang out with are experts in one and it makes…