Does your distro have a plan for the future?

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…

More myths about this "new fangled" Linux desktop

Continuing my series on "immutable linux desktops" (scroll to the end for links), today I'd like to address some more misconceptions and see if I can help drive the discussion forward. So yes, guy who died on that hill thinking that we can't set the hostname on Silverblue, this one's…

On "Wasting disk space"

One of the criticisms people have with containerizing their desktop apps is the "insane amount of space for their environment" that people think it requires. That's a direct quote from a reddit post on the topic from today. Let's have a look Today I'll compare two desktops, one will be…

Let's just kill the silly myths

I know that Ubuntu 22.04 is out and everyone's all fired up about everything and there's discussions on the net about snaps and flatpaks and appimages and all this stuff, so I'm tired of just reposting the same things so let me get the basics out of the way.…

Catching up with openSUSE MicroOS

It's been long overdue for me to check in with Team Green, so I spent some time this evening catching up on my openSUSE MicroOS desktop. If you're unfamiliar with it check out my awesome-immutable list, which has links to introductory videos and basic concepts. Also sorry to my geekos…

Desktop upgrades don't have to suck!

Sometimes when people ask me about image-based desktops they look at their existing setup and say "But it's been running awesome since 2009!". Since I know how to Linux I can reasonably upgrade a traditional distro like Debian or Ubuntu and be ok. For lots of people, it can go…

Day-to-day differences between Fedora Silverblue and Ubuntu

I've talked about setting yourself up for success trying Fedora Silverblue in a prior post, and I thought I'd keep a running log of things that I find useful, interesting, different, etc. Since I come from over a decade of Ubuntu usage I thought it might be useful for people…

Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue

TLDR: Fedora Silverblue is a variant of Fedora, however there seems to be confusion on exactly what the day-to-day differences are. In this post I hope to go over some of the ways that you can set yourself up for success, set realistic expectations, and then try it. And hopefully…