What do you mean ublue has flatpak included in the image?
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I mean flatpak binary. Other people have mentioned that it's already included in fedora silverblue. I didn't know that.
I mean, it's the main way of installing software in immutable Fedora distributions, so it would be very surprising if it wasn't preinstalled.
Doesn't normal Fedora silverblue already have flatpak? Why did you have to rebase to ublue for flatpak?
then rebased to ublue image because it has flatpak included in the image.
From Silverblue's Getting Started Guide:
Flatpak is the primary way that apps can be installed on Fedora Silverblue (for more information, see flatpak.org). Flatpak works out of the box in Fedora Silverblue...
Just seems very odd to distrohop for one main reason (flatpak in this scenario), without even checking if that reason is available in your current distro....which it is, out of the box.
Tbf I think it's very easy to rebase a Fedora Silverblue install to ublue or vice versa
Yeah, I'm not saying it's hard, just illogical. To me, it came across similar as: "I'm moving to this other distro because they have Firefox." Your current distro also has Firefox, so why are you moving again?
For sure. I just meant that it's just putting in a command and waiting for a bit, so I could understand doing it on a whim more than if it was a full reinstall. Doesn't make any sense but it's also not a big deal.
I need to play around with Silverblue and other immutable distros. Been considering them for a family member that is interested in switching to Linux.
Glad it's been good to you so far!
Silverblue rocks, I use it for my mission critical laptop.
For gaming it's hard to beat Arch, still, because of how much active development is being put in by people like Steam.
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.
I've been using Silverblue as my main computer for a couple years now and love it. It just always works and is super solid. I layered on distrobox for any other software so I can pretty much run any Linux software ever needed and it's cleanly organized in containers.
Okay, thanks for your blog post buddy 👍
Thanks for your positivity bro, don't see that often around here
OK