It’s a spam bot? But you just posted on it. I don’t promote cycling out the back of my ford truck. What is it with these fellow penguins taking such offence from corporations anyway? I’m as anti-capitalist as the next person but embrace reality, they’re not going anywhere for a while.

Thanks :D

I like the minimal installer, I learn more that way.

If the app you’re after supports Flatpak, use it. If not, rpm-ostree.

It’s not as simple as mounting the system read-only, as the system can change. However a reboot is required to switch to the new system, a lot like NixOS. I guess the biggest advantage for going Atomic vs read-only mounting is support, as the number of people using Silverblue is a lot more than the people using your suggestion.

I like XFCE, I’ve daily driven it before. But I like a modern feel to my desktop, such as animations, semi-frequent updates and the like. XFCE doesn’t really do any of that, unless you switch out the WM but then you lose a lot of the minimalism as to why you’d go for XFCE. Budgie isn’t quite as lightweight but it isn’t far off to be honest. On a fresh Arch install (That used the archinstall method) I measured 640MB of memory usage when sat on the desktop. Therefore after weighing things up Budgie won me over from XFCE.

It’s not so much overhead, the reboot is necessary due to the immutable nature of the running system. The time taken to install packages is definitely a lot longer though and I’m not quite sure why that is. However I almost never install packages onto the base system, opting for Flatpak as is intended. Therefore the speed of rpm-ostree isn’t a massive concern.

Warp lost me at the account requirement. You’re telling me I need to sign in to a terminal? Seriously? Like with an internet connection? Nope. What if I’m opening my terminal to configure my network? Warp seems to be fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. I don’t think anyone has looked at a terminal emulator and gone “Yeah, this could use AI and a cloud account”.

I’ve seen uBlue mentioned a couple times around the Fedora Atomic circle. I’ll go look into that a bit, thanks :D

Thanks for the feedback, I think I’ve decided I’m going to stick to writing on Lemmy for precisely those reasons among others. To weigh-in a bit more on your decision between Arch and Fedora Atomic, I’d only go for Arch here if you want to learn Linux inside and out. If you want to learn what makes up a Linux system, what different components do what and all that stuff then Arch will teach you that as long as you do a manual install. You can also go red-pill mode and get into configuring custom kernels on Arch but that takes many hours and many attempts to get something optimized.

Remember you can always try out distros in VMs if your computer is powerful enough (>=8 Threads, >=16GB RAM).

My view on that is more as a precaution on general Linux adoption. If your dad is going to use a distro that employs Flatpak, such as Fedora, then I would coach him a bit on that as he wouldn’t know that Flatpaks are sandboxed. For example if I gave a friend of mine that uses Windows a Flatpak system, they might be confused why Steam can’t see their games drive.

I get specific with Atomic because Atomic systems are very new, they use a lot of in-development technology and are subject to massive changes. New users may take this as a trope across Linux and be rocked off the boat. Obviously not saying a new user strictly cannot use Atomic, but again I highly recommend coaching.

Pagy looks alright however I see no free tier, but to be honest I’m thinking of sticking with Lemmy. Why?

• Decent Userbase.
• No need to direct people to another platform.
• Markdown.
• Posts can be searched, dated, edited.
• Posts support comments.
• Posts can be voted & rated.
• FOSS.
• Already use it.

I mean really, what would a separate platform give me? Looking more professional on a CV? I value practicalities over abstract concepts like that, so that shows I’m resourceful. I guess the only thing is would people be bothered by seeing infrequent posts in their feeds? But then a good chunk of the global population use platforms such as TikTok so I guess there’s acceptance for feed pollution…

Oh, and Lemmy is free. Of course though if I do continue this hobby I’ll donate to dbzer0 as much as I can.

Learning. I want to know Linux thoroughly, so I explore as much as I can. This is why I keep breaking things, just sticking in a screwdriver and wiggling it around a bit to see what happens. I am slowly getting into the habit of using VMs for this.

Yeah of course, bootloaders are bootloaders. However I don’t need to tinker with it on Fedora Atomic as it ships with GRUB as the default, not systemd-boot. Additionally, it’s easier to tinker with it on NixOS as it’s just a couple lines in the config.

I’m not saying NixOS is bad, I wish I had the time to use it. For my workload, Fedora Atomic is more appropriate.

I’ve been thinking about switching to distrobox, but I feel slightly uneased by replacing toolbox as thats what FAB ships with. I know it’s fine to do though.

NixOS does let you do that, but somehow I goofed it so hard I couldn’t even do that. Most of the time my issues arrived when tinkering with the bootloader, so outcomes like that are to be expected.

100% I’m biased, you chuck a person who can’t swim into the deep end and they’ll be terrified of water for life. With Arch being my first distro, this sorta thing happened to me. I just skipped the usual debian-based stepping stones new Linux users traverse. You’re totally right though, you can have a reliable system with almost anything debian-based. But again, for me I can’t use debian due to the old packages. I have tried it, didn’t like it. I like Fedora, it’s not reliable enough for me. Fedora Atomic fixes that.

This is not astroturfing though. Just me and my views based on past experiences.

Thanks for the feedback :D. I totally get the proof-reading argument, I’ll take extra time to proof-read my next ones for sure. This post was kinda caught in the crossfire a bit to be honest, as it’s been applied onto four different platforms at this point as I try to find one I like. So I simply forgot to do a thorough proof-read.

Damn, that Bloggi looks awesome. You’ve also taken exactly the same path as me. When I wanted to start a blog, I first looked at Jekyll, then Hugo, now I’m writing my own thing with just HTML & CSS. I’m probably gonna sign up for Bloggi, thanks :P. If they have any referral program I’m more than happy to use your link.

If your VPN supports WireGuard config files, I’ve had good results using wireguard-tools in a toolbox and wg-quick to bring up the interface (also from the toolbox). I have Proton Unlimited and so use a separate config for port-forwarding when I torrent, the app doesn’t work for port-forwarding for the same reasons yours doesn’t at all I imagine.

Thanks for the info! :D. I use Budgie simply because it’s my favorite. I don’t like Gnome’s scale nor childishly large UI elements, but I want a desktop that uses GTK. KDE is Qt, so no GTK apps really look right there. Sure you can theme GTK to fit your Qt theme, but they still aren’t 100%. I’ll give KDE another try when 6 releases, but it’s obviously still gonna be on Qt.

I’ve used KDE, Gnome and Budgie extensively. Budgie is hands-down the nicest to use. It’s light, it’s consistent, it’s modern so on and so forth. KDE used to be my main, but after I learnt that Budgie development had picked back up I switched for good.

I agree with your X.Org distaste. I don’t like that I’m using it too but we know that Wayland is coming to Budgie very soon so I’m ok with waiting. Battery life on my laptop is good enough, and I experience no X.Org artifacts such as tearing on my desktop (probably thanks to a 165Hz monitor :P).

Here :D