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Fedora Silverblue is an immutable desktop operating system. It aims to be extremely stable and reliable. It also aims to be an excellent platform for developers and for those using container-focused workflows.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/
Fedora Silverblue provides a very rock solid system making it ideal for daily desktop use. It's main source of applications is Flatpak, RPMs can be installed but require a system restart each time a RPM package is modified due to sandboxing reasons so it is only recommended for important system packages.
Silverblue uses Gnome, Kinoite is available if you want KDE
https://kinoite.fedoraproject.org/
+ Very solid system
+ Vast amount of packages with Flatpak, RPM and Distrobox (AUR, DEB)
+ Minimal installation
+ Easy to use installation ISO
+ Most Fedora support forum advice and guides will work with Silverblue
- SystemD
SystemD likes to hang on shutdown for 2 minutes very commonly for me
- Restart required for install, update and removal of RPM packages
- Containers have large filesizes
- Gnome-software can be buggy
~ Corporate owned distro
~ Doesn't come with video codecs, but will be fine if you use a video player with them built in
rpm-ostree install gnome-tweak-tool alacarte distrobox
gnome-tweak-tool - Tweak Tool
alacarte - Application menu editor (Flatpaks cause errors)
distrobox - Use other distros in containers, supports GUI applications
rpm-ostree override remove firefox gnome-tour
firefox - Use Flatpak for browsers
gnome-tour - Only used once on major updates
Extension Manager - install Gnome shell extensions without a browser
Flatseal - Advanced flatpak permission manager GUI
Bottles - Run Windows programs easily (WINE GUI)
What Distrobox can do
What Distrobox can't do
Install your distro of choice in distrobox
or
distrobox-create --image docker.io/library/archlinux:latest -name arch
Name can be whatever you want it to be
Recommended: Add a terminal profile to start with "distrobox-enter arch" with a different colour scheme
distrobox-enter arch
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
yay nano
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
ctrl + s to save
yay pamac-aur
from Chaotic-AUR or AUR for pacman/AUR gui
sudo pamac-manager
Enable AUR with Hambuger menu > Settings > Third Party > Enable AUR support
Software to look out for