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What are people daily driving these days?
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What's fedora like to use? I dont see it mentioned as much as Debian or Arch.
I've been running Fedora Silverblue on nearly all of my PCs for about a year now and overall it's been great.
Some elements not unique to Silverblue but part of its common workflow:
My only complaints about Silverblue are more to do with how Flatpaks work right now, such as:
That said, I'm confident that these issues will be addressed over time. The platform has already come a long way these past couple of years and now that the KDE and GNOME teams are collaborating for it, things will only get better.
Like I said though, overall Silverblue has been a really great user experience, and as a nearly 20-year Linux veteran it has really changed the way I view computing.
Do you have to watch a loading screen while system updates are applied like on regular Fedora or is it in the background?
On flathub.org there's a blue checkmark for apps maintained by the devs
The image is downloaded and staged in the background of the active session. Upon reboot, the session seamlessly defaults to the staged image. For flatpaks, the updates happen immediately and without the need for a reboot.
Aha, that must be one of the newer features implemented from the beta portal they'd been working on. I'm glad to hear it, and overall I hope to see more official upstream devs come on board with the platform (Signal, I'm looking at you).
That's great to hear. Maybe I'll give Silverblue a try
Sounds good. I don't think the automatic background updates are enabled by default, at least they weren't when I last installed it. To enable:
/etc/rpm-ostreed.conf
and setAutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage
rpm-ostree reload
systemctl enable rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer --now
Also, consider disabling GNOME Software's management of flatpaks with the following:
The flatpaks will continue to be updated by the backend system, but you'll no longer have to deal with the sluggish frontend UI to keep things up to date.
I will keep that in mind, thank you