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I have started using fedora silverblue (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today, I made switch to fedora silverblue and then rebased to ublue image because it has flatpak included in the image. I am also thinking about making my own image based on silverblue. there is a video made by bigpod a youtuber about how to make your own custom ublue image and I learned a lot from that video. I am using toolbox to install various software and I am linking it however I am thinking if toolbox consumes more RAM and CPU. I guess I will find out ones I install silverblue on my laptop with old HDD.

I downloaded my favourite browser from flathub. the flathub repo isn't enabled by default in kinoite image of ublue. I have also find a way to export toolbox container to move it to different machine.

So yeah, I am liking it so far :D

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I am also thinking about making my own image based on silverblue. there is a video made by bigpod a youtuber about how to make your own custom ublue image

Before you create your own uBlue image, I highly recommend checking out some of the existing images here: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/list-of-community-created-custom-images/340 or here.

Personally, as a gamer, I use Bazzite, but recently I've rebased to a fork of it with my own customisations, and it's been amazing.

Distrobox > Toolbox btw. Both use podman behind the scenes but Distrobox is a bit more easier to use/fleshed out for desktop usage (eg makes it easy to export/integrate container apps with your the host).

I'd also recommend checking out Nix for installing any packages not on Flatpak or your Distrobox distro, as Nix has its own advantages since it's you're running real application binaries directly on your host OS, instead of an exported script (as in the case of Distrobox), so you get better/direct access to system resources and won't face some of the quirks/bugs you may get from running a containerised app.