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…

Headphone/Speaker fast switching with Pipewire

EDIT: Oh no, IDs don't survive reboot(!?!) This post will need some work as I figure this out. Keep reading though. I've recently gone all in on Fedora Silverblue, and while I was able to modify the initial setup [https://github.com/castrojo/ublue] to fit me as an Ubuntu…

Literally just care

There's this meme on twitter where now-famous developers and other tech people post all the jobs that they applied for and got rejected from and then maybe that will help with my impostor's syndrome. > I’ve been soft rejected from more companies than I can remember (no reply) I’ve…