Distrobox vs. Toolbox doesn't matter!

Of all the things people argue about! Ultimately they both do the same thing – take an existing workflow that I know, and add an abstraction layer that gives us tons of new options. Interactivity within the container's shell is powerful, but there needs to be user experience changes in order…

Declaring your own personal distroboxes

Every once in a while I see someone complaining that they've lost work because their toolbox/distrobox got destroyed. I'm going to go over how we can use declarative config to remove this bit of jank from our lives. We don't want distroboxes to be pets either! This is part…

The distribution model is changing

One of the nice things about being on sabbatical is I get to say things like "You should be happy that RHEL is dropping LibreOffice RPMs" without the fear of being kicked out a room you didn't want to be in the first place.   I have been talking for a…

Universal Blue 1.0 - a toolkit for customizing Fedora images

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…

The container runtime on your desktop, by default.

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…

Making the most out of distrobox and toolbx

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…