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…
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…
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…
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&…
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…
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…
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…
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…