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…

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…

SteamOS 3.0's Potential: The Living Room PC Strikes Back

> Do you have any predictions for the Steam Deck? — Gardiner Bryant (@gardiner_bryant) July 24, 2021 [https://twitter.com/gardiner_bryant/status/1418945786465951754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Ok so I always have too much to say so I figured this time I'll write it down! The Steam…

Running snaps on Fedora Silverblue

My foray into immutable Linux distro desktops continues. After trying out openSUSE's MicroOS desktop [https://www.ypsidanger.com/23800-running-snaps-on-opensuse-microos-desktop/] and enjoying it I thought I would come back and try Fedora Silverblue [https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/] and give it a shot. OpenSUSE never broke by the way if…

USG and dnsmasq

About three weeks ago my usually-reliable-af Unifi gear started having a problem, the wifi just turned to trash, the UI log was just filled with clients connecting and disconnecting over and over again. Everything was mostly just broken: Most of my clients were showing up as "60%" on…

GNOME isn't as slow as you think it is

It's just a bad default. I snagged a brand new computer from System76 and was initially disappointed with the desktop snappiness. Then I remembered that this is a thing, I just don't reinstall often enough to make it into my muscle memory. Grab this extension, it&…